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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Dowd Kevin"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Laissez-faire banking / / Kevin Dowd"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-134-77563-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-429-22866-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-415-08584-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-134-77564-4"]
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[{"$nulls":4},"9786610332540"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (384 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Foundations of the market economy series"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"332.1"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Free banking - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Monetary policy - History"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-371) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Laissez-faire banking; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Free banking theory; 2 Automatic stabilizing mechanisms under free banking; 3 Option clauses and the stability of a laissez-faire monetary system; 4 Monetary freedom and monetary stability; 5 Is banking a natural monopoly?; 6 Models of banking instability; Part II Historical experience; 7 Free banking in Australia; 8 US banking in the 'free banking' period; 9 Money and banking: the American experience; 10 Did central banks evolve naturally?"]
[{"$nulls":4},"11 The evolution of central banking in England, 1821-9012 The evolution of central banking in England: a reply to my critics; Part III Monetary and banking reform; 13 Stopping inflation; 14 Does Europe need a Federal Reserve System?; 15 Evaluating the hard ecu; 16 The US banking crisis: the way out; Notes; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The idea of free (or laissez-faire) banking has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance in recent years. It is a novel idea that challenges much of what many banking scholars still take for granted - that banking is inherently unstable, that the banking system needs a lender of last "]
[{"$nulls":4},"resort or deposit insurance to defend it in a crisis, and that the Government has to protect the value of the currency. Against this free banking sets an argument which is in essence very simple: if markets are generally better at allocating resources than governments, then what is different about money and the industr"]