Conservatives versus wildcats [[electronic resource] ] : a sociology of financial conflict / / Simone Polillo

• Autore: Polillo Simone <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3
• Soggetto topico: Banks and banking - Social aspects; Credit - Social aspects; Finance - Social aspects; Banks and banking - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century; Banks and banking - Social aspects - Italy - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Money, Banks, and Creditworthiness -- 2. Banking and Finance as Organized Conflict -- 3. Institutions and the Struggle over Creditworthiness in the Nineteenth-Century United States -- 4. Wildcats, Reputations, and the Formation of the Federal Reserve -- 5. Italian Elites and the Centralization of Creditworthiness -- 6. Italian Creditworthiness -- 7. Conclusions -- Appendix. Historical Variation in Banking Power -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conservatives versus wildcats
• ISBN: 0-8047-8555-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809590303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II