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The Resource The development of American finance, Martijn Konings, (electronic resource)

The development of American finance, Martijn Konings, (electronic resource)

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Since the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-term basis of a stable US-led financial order. But the American financial system has repeatedly shown itself to be more resilient than such assessments suggest. This book argues that there is considerable coherence to American finance: far from being a house of cards, it is a proper edifice, built on institutional foundations with points of both strength and weakness. The book examines these foundations through a historical account of their construction: it shows how institutional transformations in the late nineteenth century created a distinctive infrastructure of financial relations and proceeds to trace the contradiction-ridden expansion of this system during the twentieth century as well as its institutional consolidation during the neoliberal era. It concludes with a discussion of the forces of instability that hit at the start of the twenty-first century.--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 199 pages)
Contents
  • Finance from Britain to the American colonies
  • The financial dynamics of Antebellum America
  • Contours of American finance
  • Contradictions of early twentieth-century financial expansion
  • The United States and international finance in the interwar period
  • New foundations for financial expansion
  • Contradictions of the dollar
  • The domestic expansion of American finance
  • Contradictions of late twentieth-century financial expansion
  • The neoliberal consolidation of American financial power
  • Contradictions of the present
Isbn
9781139015011
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015011
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The development of American finance
Title
The development of American finance
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Martijn Konings
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Since the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-term basis of a stable US-led financial order. But the American financial system has repeatedly shown itself to be more resilient than such assessments suggest. This book argues that there is considerable coherence to American finance: far from being a house of cards, it is a proper edifice, built on institutional foundations with points of both strength and weakness. The book examines these foundations through a historical account of their construction: it shows how institutional transformations in the late nineteenth century created a distinctive infrastructure of financial relations and proceeds to trace the contradiction-ridden expansion of this system during the twentieth century as well as its institutional consolidation during the neoliberal era. It concludes with a discussion of the forces of instability that hit at the start of the twenty-first century.--
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1975-
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Konings, Martijn
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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Finance
Label
The development of American finance, Martijn Konings, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015011
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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text
Content type code
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Contents
Finance from Britain to the American colonies -- The financial dynamics of Antebellum America -- Contours of American finance -- Contradictions of early twentieth-century financial expansion -- The United States and international finance in the interwar period -- New foundations for financial expansion -- Contradictions of the dollar -- The domestic expansion of American finance -- Contradictions of late twentieth-century financial expansion -- The neoliberal consolidation of American financial power -- Contradictions of the present
Control code
CR9781139015011
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 199 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781139015011
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)768111327
Label
The development of American finance, Martijn Konings, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015011
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Finance from Britain to the American colonies -- The financial dynamics of Antebellum America -- Contours of American finance -- Contradictions of early twentieth-century financial expansion -- The United States and international finance in the interwar period -- New foundations for financial expansion -- Contradictions of the dollar -- The domestic expansion of American finance -- Contradictions of late twentieth-century financial expansion -- The neoliberal consolidation of American financial power -- Contradictions of the present
Control code
CR9781139015011
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 199 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781139015011
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)768111327

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