TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grossman,Richard S.
TI  - Unsettled account: the evolution of banking in the industrialized world since 1800 
T2  - The Princeton economic history of the western world
SN  - 9781400835256
AV  - HG1551 .G76 2010eb
U1  - 332.109 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - History
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Bank failures
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Banques
KW  - Faillites
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Banks & Banking
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Origins of banking -- Banking crises -- Rescuing the banking system: bailouts, lenders of last resort, and more extreme measures -- Merger movements -- Regulation -- Banking evolution in England -- Banking evolution in Sweden -- Banking evolution in the United States -- Constrained and deregulated banking in the twentieth century and beyond
N2  - 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
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