Naomi Lamoreaux

Insider Lending

Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the important role that insider lending played in the economic development of early nineteenth-century New England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780521566247
• ISBN-10: 052156624X
• Artikelnr.: 22270893

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Vehicles for accumulating capital
2. Insider lending and Jacksonian hostility towards banks
3. Engines of economic development
4. The decline of insider lending and the problem of determining creditworthiness
5. Professionalization and specialization
6. The merger movement in banking
Conclusion.