The Second Bank of the United States: �Central� banker in an era of nation-building, 1816�1836

ISBN-13: 9780367870225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str.

Jane Ellen Knodell

Opis

The year 2016 marks the 200^th anniversary of the founding of the Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836). This book is an economic history of an early central bank, the Second Bank of the United States (1816-36). It shows how the Bank developed a business model that allowed it to make a competitive profit while providing integrat

Recenzje

"Overall, this book is an important contribution to the understanding of the Second Bank of the United States and an excellent point of reference for scholars of early American economic and political history." - Claire Brennecke, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Origin and purposes of the Second Bank

Chapter Three: The Second Bank’s branch network and the state banking system

Chapter Four: The Second Bank and the "exchanges": conquering space

Chapter Five: The "production" of monetary stability

Chapter Six: The Second Bank’s specie market operations

Chapter Seven: Conclusion

O autorze

Jane Ellen Knodell is Mark J. Zwynenburg Green and Gold Professor of Financial History at the University of Vermont, USA. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of money and banking, macroeconomics, and economic history.