LEADER 03842nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910792186203321 005 20230126204253.0 010 $a0-8047-8555-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804785556 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102289 035 $a(EBL)1191607 035 $a(OCoLC)849246161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000915486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11570828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10868896 035 $a(PQKB)10991669 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155774 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1191607 035 $a(DE-B1597)564318 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804785556 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1191607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10718270 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770065 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102289 100 $a20120823d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConservatives versus wildcats$b[electronic resource] $ea sociology of financial conflict /$fSimone Polillo 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8509-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Money, Banks, and Creditworthiness -- $t2. Banking and Finance as Organized Conflict -- $t3. Institutions and the Struggle over Creditworthiness in the Nineteenth-Century United States -- $t4. Wildcats, Reputations, and the Formation of the Federal Reserve -- $t5. Italian Elites and the Centralization of Creditworthiness -- $t6. Italian Creditworthiness -- $t7. Conclusions -- $tAppendix. Historical Variation in Banking Power -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aFor decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force. Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying themselves with political elites to restrict access to credit. Barriers to credit create social resistance, so rival bankers?wildcats?attempt to subvert the status quo by using money as a tool for breaking existing boundaries. For instance, wildcats may increase the circulation of existing currencies, incorporate new actors in financial markets, or produce altogether new financial instruments to create change. Using examples from the economic and social histories of 19th-century America and Italy, two decentralized polities where challenges to sound banking originated from above and below, this book reveals the collective tactics that conservative bankers devise to legitimize strict boundaries around credit?and the transgressive strategies that wildcat bankers employ in their challenge to this restrictive stance. 606 $aBanks and banking$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aCredit$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aFinance$xSocial aspects$vCase studies 606 $aBanks and banking$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBanks and banking$xSocial aspects$zItaly$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aBanks and banking$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCredit$xSocial aspects 615 0$aFinance$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBanks and banking$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aBanks and banking$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a306.3 700 $aPolillo$b Simone$f1978-$01490942 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792186203321 996 $aConservatives versus wildcats$93788266 997 $aUNINA