Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022. — 1313 p. In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular — in the ancient world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a potential path to debt bondage and slavery. Yet as capitalism became established from the...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 403 p. — ISBN10: 0300223323, 13 978-0300223323. In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping and antifraud measures, and fiduciary...
Cambridge press, 2017. — 716 p. — ISBN10: 1107149665. Throughout their long history, the primary concern of central banks has oscillated between price stability in normal times and financial stability in extraordinary times. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, central banks have been given additional responsibilities to ensure financial stability, which has...
The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1948. — 458 p. The Italian Colonies in Flanders: Their Establishment, their Legal Status, and their Social Life The Organization of the Italian Mercantile and Banking Houses with branches in Bruges The Business of Exchange and the mechanisum of the Money Market The Vicissitues of the Money Market and the Perils of Investment in Public Loans The...
Boston USA : Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1999. — 55 p. English. Historical Beginnings…Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.As essential as our central banking system appears to be in the complex economy of the 1970s, the political and legislative struggle to create the Federal Reserve System was long and often extremely bitter, and the final product was the result of a carefully...
The history of banks: to which is added, a demonstration of the advantages and necessity of free competition in the business of banking». – Batoche Books. – Kitchener, 2001. – 77 p.