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020 $a9780691155241 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0691155240 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHG1561$b.C35 2014
082 00 $a332.109$223
100 1 $aCalomiris, Charles W.
245 10 $aFragile by design :$bthe political origins of banking crises and scarce credit /$cCharles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axi, 570 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 507-548) and index.
505 0 $aIf 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Traveling to other places : is our sample representative? -- Reality is a plague on many houses.
650 0 $aBanks and banking$xHistory.
650 0 $aBank failures$xHistory.
650 0 $aCredit$xHistory.
700 1 $aHaber, Stephen H.,$d1957-