Genealogy Of American Finance

Author : Robert E. Wright,Richard Sylla
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231539210

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Genealogy of American Finance by Robert E. Wright,Richard Sylla Pdf

In this unique, well-illustrated book, readers learn how fifty financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and their impact on the nation's political, social, and economic growth. A story that spans more than two centuries of war, crisis, and opportunity, this account reminds readers that American banking was never a fixed enterprise but has evolved in tandem with the country. More than 225 years have passed since Alexander Hamilton created one of the nation's first commercial banks. Over time, these institutions have changed hands, names, and locations, reflecting a wave of mergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring efforts that echo changes in American finance. Some names, such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo, will be familiar to readers. The origins of others, including Zions Bancorporation, founded by Brigham Young and owned by the Mormon Church until 1960, are surprising. Exploring why some banks failed and others thrived, this book wonders, in light of the 2008 financial crisis, whether recent consolidations have reached or even exceeded economically rational limits. A key text for navigating the complex terrain of American finance, this volume draws a fascinating family tree for projecting the financial future of a nation.

Author : Peter L. Rousseau,Paul Wachtel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107141094

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Financial Systems and Economic Growth by Peter L. Rousseau,Paul Wachtel Pdf

This volume presents essays that take a historical look at aspects of the finance-growth nexus.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785603549

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International Corporate Governance by Anonim Pdf

Advances in Financial Economics, volume 18, will present research on corporate governance both in the US and globally. The volume will aim at providing a deeper understanding of corporate governance practices, trends, innovations and challenges using international data.

Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319489681

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The Poverty of Slavery by Robert E. Wright Pdf

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much like pollution, drag down all members of society. Tracing the history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates how slaveholders burden communities and governments with the task of maintaining the system while preventing productive individuals from participating in the economy. Historians, economists, policymakers, and anti-slavery activists need no longer apologize for opposing the dubious benefits of unfree labor. Wright provides a valuable resource for exposing the hidden price tag of slaving to help them pitch antislavery policies as matters of both human rights and economic well-being.

Author : Christopher Kobrak,Joe Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442616257

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From Wall Street to Bay Street by Christopher Kobrak,Joe Martin Pdf

From Wall Street to Bay Street is the first book for a lay audience to tackle the similarities and differences between the financial systems of Canada and the United States. Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin reveal the different paths each system has taken since the early nineteenth-century.

Author : Walter A. Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190622473

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American Business History: a Very Short Introduction by Walter A. Friedman Pdf

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive manufactory as the embodiment of America: "While Athens had its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit..." How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America? This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society. It introduces readers to formative business leaders (including Elbert Gary, Harlow Curtice, and Mary Kay Ash), leading firms (Mellon Bank, National Cash Register, Xerox), and fiction about business people (The Octopus, Babbitt, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit). It also discusses Alfred Chandler, Joseph Schumpeter, Mira Wilkins, and others who made significant contributions to understanding of America's business history. This VSI pursues its three central themes - the evolution, scale, and culture of American business - in a chronological framework stretching from the American Revolution to today. The first theme is evolution: How has U.S. business evolved over time? How have American companies competed with one another and with foreign firms? Why have ideas about strategy and management changed? Why did business people in the mid-twentieth century celebrate an "organizational" culture promising long-term employment in the same company, while a few decades later entrepreneurship was prized? Second is scale: Why did business assume such enormous scale in the United States? Was the rise of gigantic corporations due to the industriousness of its population, or natural resources, or government policies? And third, culture: What are the characteristics of a "business civilization"? How have opinions on the meaning of business changed? In the late nineteenth century, Andrew Carnegie believed that America's numerous enterprises represented an exuberant "triumph of democracy." After World War II, however, sociologist William H. Whyte saw business culture as stultifying, and historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, "Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men." How did changes in the nature of business affect popular views? Walter A. Friedman provides the long view of these important developments.

Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598133370

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In All Fairness by Richard A. Epstein Pdf

Growing concern about inequality has led to proposals to remake American society according to ill-conceived and coercive "egalitarian" values that are fundamentally unfair. This unique book reveals the modern romance with equality as a destructive flirtation. The elites who advocate such notions claim they champion the poor—but more often than not the nostrums of this managerial class undermine, rather than advance, mass prosperity and human well-being. The authors of In All Fairness challenge all of the prevailing egalitarian ideas, including the claim that the country is riven by inequality in the first place. After all, our economy thrives with a division of labor that allows individuals who are unequal in interests and talents to pursue their own unique goals. Looked at in this way, equality is far more widespread than overheated rhetoric might lead one to expect—as factual data show. But it is an equality of a particularly valuable type—one arrived at, not by top-down attempts to impose economic uniformity, but by our respecting inviolable rules of fair play and the dignity of each person, a dignity that requires everyone to respect the voluntary transactions of others. This approach holds equity, liberty, diversity, and prosperity together. Would we want it any other way in America and anywhere around the world? The authors draw on economics, philosophy, religion, law, political science, and history to provide answers to a perennial question that especially agitates the American public today: Can the coercive powers of the state be used to achieve a kind of arithmetic equality? The authors, each in their own way, make a strong case that they should not be used in this fashion. Love inequality or loathe it, In All Fairness is full of key insights about the connections among fairness, liberty, equality and the quest for human dignity. You won't think about wealth and poverty, equality and inequality, in the same way ever again.

Author : José Gabilondo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783479177

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Bank Funding, Liquidity, and Capital Adequacy by José Gabilondo Pdf

Focusing primarily on the banking system in the United States, this book offers an innovative framework that integrates a depository bank’s liquidity and its capital adequacy into a unified notion of funding that helps to explain how the 2007–2008 crisis unfolded, why central banks succeeded in resolving the crisis, and how the conceptual legacy of the crisis and its resolution led to lasting changes in bank funding regulation, including new objective requirements for bank liquidity. To provide a comparative context, the book also examines the funding models of non-bank intermediaries like dealer banks and insurers.

Author : Martijn Konings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139501958

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The Development of American Finance by Martijn Konings Pdf

Since the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-term basis of a stable US-led financial order. But the American financial system has repeatedly shown itself to be more resilient than such assessments suggest. This book argues that there is considerable coherence to American finance: far from being a house of cards, it is a proper edifice, built on institutional foundations with points of both strength and weakness. The book examines these foundations through a historical account of their construction: it shows how institutional transformations in the late nineteenth century created a distinctive infrastructure of financial relations and proceeds to trace the contradiction-ridden expansion of this system during the twentieth century as well as its institutional consolidation during the neoliberal era. It concludes with a discussion of the forces of instability that hit at the start of the twenty-first century.

Author : R. Aitken
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230607088

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Performing Capital by R. Aitken Pdf

This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to intervene into everyday spaces to develop capital there.

Author : Alexander Dana Noyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Finance
ISBN : UOM:39015062323772

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Thirty Years of American Finance by Alexander Dana Noyes Pdf

Author : Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319527826

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Professional Authority After the Global Financial Crisis by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn Pdf

This book challenges amoral views of finance as the leading realm in which mammon – wealth and profit – is pursued with little overt regard for morality. The author details an enhanced ethical emphasis by leading Anglo–American professionals in the aftermath of the 2007–8 global financial crisis. Instead of merely stressing expert knowledge, professionals sought to overcome the alleged impossibility of serving “two masters” – mammon and God – by embracing religious finance, socio-economic inequality, sustainability and other overtly moral issues. Continuities in liberal values and ideas, however, limited the impact of this enhanced ethical emphasis to restoring the professional authority, as well as to more fundamentally reforming of Anglo–American finance following the most severe period of instability since the Great Depression. Providing a nuanced account of post-crisis change and continuity in a crucially important industry, Campbell-Verduyn advances a dynamic, process-based understanding of authority that will appeal to international political economists and sociologists alike.

Author : Marieke de Goede
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0816644144

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Virtue, Fortune, and Faith by Marieke de Goede Pdf

A revealing examination of the often misunderstood history of contemporary financial markets.

Author : Stephen Maher,Scott Aquanno
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839765261

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The Fall and Rise of American Finance by Stephen Maher,Scott Aquanno Pdf

How Wall Street concocted a more volatile and dangerous capitalism The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan’s vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. Contrary to what is taken for common sense by figures from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders, Maher and Aquanno insist that financialization did not imply the hollowing out of the “real” economy or the retreat of the state. Rather, it served to intensify competitive discipline to maximize efficiency, profits, and the exploitation of labor—with the support of an increasingly authoritarian state.

Author : Foster Stockwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786484386

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A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research by Foster Stockwell Pdf

Genealogists can sometimes require obscure resources when in search of information about ancestors. Tracking down records to complete a family tree can become laborious when the researcher doesn't know where to begin looking. Many of the best resources are maintained regionally or even locally, and aren’t widely known. This reference work serves as a guide to both beginning and experienced genealogy researchers. The sourcebook is easily accessible and usable, featuring approximately 270 entries on all aspects of genealogical research and family history compilation. The entries are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced so any researcher can quickly find the information he or she is seeking. Each state and each of the provinces of Canada has its own entry; other countries are listed under appropriate headings. The author also provides more than 700 addresses from all over the world so that the genealogist or general researcher may contact any one of these organizations to obtain specific information about particular births, deaths, marriages, or other life events in order to complete a family tree.