The Theory of Free Banking


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The Free Banking Era


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The author argues that free-banking laws enacted before the Civil War generated substantial benefits in the form of a more efficient allocation of capital.







Experience of Free Banking


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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.







A History of Banking in Antebellum America


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Professor Bodenhorn reveals how America was served by an efficient system of financial intermediaries by the mid-nineteenth century.




The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve


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Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.




Banking on Freedom


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Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power in contexts shaped by sexism, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. Garrett-Scott chronicles both the bank’s success and the challenges this success wrought, including extralegal violence and aggressive oversight from state actors who saw black economic autonomy as a threat to both democratic capitalism and the social order. The teller cage and boardroom became sites of activism and resistance as the leadership of president Maggie Lena Walker and other women board members kept the bank grounded in meeting the needs of working-class black women. The first book to center black women’s engagement with the elite sectors of banking, finance, and insurance, Banking on Freedom reveals the ways gender, race, and class shaped the meanings of wealth and risk in U.S. capitalism and society.




Let Us Put Our Money Together


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Generally, books addressing the early history of African American banks have done so either within the larger construct of African American business history and economic development, or as a starting point to explore current issues related to financial services. Focused considerations of these early institutions and their founders have been relatively rare and somewhat scattered. This publication seeks to address this issue.




The Rationale of Central Banking


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