Insider Lending
Subtitle: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521566247
Subjects: Banking; Economic History; Management - General; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Banks & Banking; Banks and banking--New England--History--19th century; Business & Economics / Management
First sentence: Commercial banking got its start in New England (as elsewhere in the United States) shortly after the Revolutionary War, when groups of prominent merchants in the region's leading port cities began petitioning their state legislatures for charters of incorporation.