Money and Banks in the American Political System

ISBN-13: 9781107028043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 330 str.

Kathryn C. Lavelle

Opis

In Money and Banks in the American Political System, debates over financial politics are woven into the political fabric of the state and contemporary conceptions of the American dream. The author argues that the political sources of instability in finance derive from the nexus between market innovation and regulatory arbitrage. This book explores monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policies within a political culture characterized by the separation of business and state, and mistrust of the concentration of power in any one political or economic institution. The bureaucratic arrangements among the branches of government, the Federal Reserve, executive agencies, and government sponsored enterprises incentivize agencies to compete for budgets, resources, governing authority, and personnel.

Recenzje

'The financial crisis that began in 2008 remains the subject of heated arguments regarding its causes … This new book, grounded in relevant historical developments and guided by a helpful understanding of bureaucratic politics and the distinctive nature of US governments and guided by a helpful understanding of bureaucratic politics and the distinctive nature of US government, brings a refreshingly balanced perspective to the problem. … it sheds light on the most basic causes of US financial instability. Summing up: recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.' M. E. Ethridge, Choice

Spis treści

1. The institutional foundations of financial politics in the United States; Part I. A Historical Background: 2. Developing state capacity for the conduct of American finance; 3. Creating increasingly complex financial products; Part II. The Bureaucratic Politics and Finance: 4. Making financial policy in Congress; 5. Making financial policy in the executive branch and the federal bureaucracy; 6. Making financial policy in the federal reserve system; Part III. The Operation of the Financial Political Economy: 7. The process in motion: political institutions, money, and the business cycle; 8. The process approaches collapse: politics in the financial crisis of 2008; 9. The process in its international context: political in international institutions; Part IV. Conclusions: 10. Governing the US financial system.