Fragile by design : the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit

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Autori principali: Calomiris, Charles W., Haber, Stephen H, 1957- (Autore)
Natura: Livre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Princeton ; London : Pinceton University Press 2014.
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Edition sous un autre format:• Fragile by design, the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit, Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber, Princeton, Pinceton University Press, 2014, 1 vol. (XI-570 p.), The Princeton economic history of the Western world, 978-0-691-15524-1
Sommario:
  • 1. No banks without states, and no states without banks
  • If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare?
  • The game of bank bargains
  • Tools of conquest and survival: why states need banks
  • Privileges with burdens: war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking
  • Banks and democracy: Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • 2. The cost of banker-populist alliances: the United States versus Canada
  • Crippled by populism: U.S. banking from colonial times to 1990
  • The new U.S. bank bargain: megabanks, urban activists, and the erosion of mortgage standards
  • Leverage, regulatory failure, and the subprime crisis
  • Durable partners: politics and banking in Canada
  • 3. Authoritarianism, democratic transitions, and the game of bank bargains
  • Mexico: chaos makes cronyism look good
  • When autocracy fails: banking and politics in Mexico since 1982
  • Inflation machines: banking and state finance in imperial Brazil
  • The democratic consequences of inflation-tax banking in Brazil
  • 4. Going beyond structural narratives
  • Traveling to other places: is our sample representative?
  • Reality is a plague on many houses