Laissez-faire banking / / Kevin Dowd
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| Autore: |
Dowd Kevin
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| Titolo: |
Laissez-faire banking / / Kevin Dowd
|
| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 332.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Free banking - History |
| Monetary policy - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-371) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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? |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Laissez-faire banking |
| ISBN: | 1-134-77563-6 |
| 0-429-22866-X | |
| 0-415-08584-5 | |
| 1-134-77564-4 | |
| 1-280-33254-9 | |
| 9786610332540 | |
| 0-585-46131-7 | |
| 0-203-02909-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806814503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Foundations of the market economy series.