Visionary Capitalism: Financial Markets and the American Dream in the Twentieth CenturyThis groundbreaking new work presents the first financial history of the United States in the 20th century from the commercial and investment banking perspective. The author traces the development of both industries from the 1920s through the conditions of the present marketplace and looks at the simultaneous development of the federal regulatory agencies that grew up around the financial markets. Arguing that the ideal of an American Dream finds its best tangible expression in the ways in which the financial markets have been used to foster and protect the ideals of quality housing, higher education, and agricultural production, the author analyzes the successes and failures of the markets in producing a high standard of living and well-being over the past 70 years. |
Contents
The Capital Markets since the Crash | 25 |
Commercial Banking since 1934 | 53 |
The Mortgage Agencies | 83 |
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Visionary Capitalism: Financial Markets and the American Dream in the ... Charles R. Geisst No preview available - 1990 |