TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calomiris,Charles W.
AU  - Haber,Stephen H.
TI  - Fragile by design: the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit 
T2  - The Princeton economic history of the Western world
SN  - 9780691155241
AV  - HG1561 .C35 2014
U1  - 332.109 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - History
KW  - Bank failures
KW  - Credit
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-548) and index; 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 -- 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
ER  -