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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008418903321

Autore

Perez Sofia

Titolo

Banking on Privilege : The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform / / Sofia Perez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©1997

ISBN

9781501744747

1501744747

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.) : 21 tables

Disciplina

332.1/0946

Soggetti

Finance - Spain

Financial institutions - Deregulation - Spain

Financial institutions - Spain

General Economics

HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface / Pérez, Sofía A. -- Introduction: Invisible Hand and Political Legacy -- 1. The Spanish Economy and Financial Reform -- 2. The Inflationary Origins of the Spanish Financial System -- 3. Cheap Credit and the Politics of Interventionism -- 4. Shift within the State -- 5. Financial Reform and the Political Transition -- 6. Socialist Victory and Regulatory Accommodation -- 7. From Meso To Macro: The Rise and Fall of the Peseta -- Conclusion: The Politics of Financial Liberalization -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'This is a remarkable book, engrossing and exceptionally well organized. The argument is clear, elegant, and subtle. My guess is that Banking on Privilege will quickly earn a place as one of the standards of comparative political economy.'-Peter McDonough, Arizona State University'This wonderfully researched study of the mutual accommodation between private and central bankers in Spain offers a compelling alternative to state and market-driven conceptions of financial regulation and reform. The author's careful theoretical crafting and mastery of historical detail assures this book a place beside the



works by Zysman, Loriaux, Woo, and a few others on a narrow shelf of essential texts about the comparative political economy of financial systems. No serious observer of financial and monetary reform in Europe can afford to ignore this impressive book.'-Mauro F. Guillen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania'This is a thoroughly researched and meticulously argued piece of scholarship that contributes much substance to our knowledge of finance and financial reform in other countries and brings many provocative ideas to theoretical debate.'-Michael Loriaux, Northwestern University