Unsettled account : the evolution of banking in the industrialized world since 1800

Label

Unsettled account : the evolution of banking in the industrialized world since 1800

Title remainder

the evolution of banking in the industrialized world since 1800

Statement of responsibility

Richard S. Grossman

Creator

• Grossman, Richard S

Subject

• Banks and banking -- History
• Banks and banking -- Government policy
• History
• Business
• Financial crises
• Bank failures
• Banks and banking
• Government policy

Language

eng

Summary

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major elements that have contributed to banking evolution: crises, bailouts, mergers, and regulations. He explores whe

Member of

• Princeton economic history of the Western world

Cataloging source

CDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Princeton economic history of the western world