Politics and Banking
Subtitle: Ideas, Public Policy, and the Creation of Financial Institutions
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801867026
Subjects: Banking; Economic history; International relations; Monetary Policy; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Money & Monetary Policy; Banks & Banking; Public Affairs & Administration; Business & Economics / Money & Monetary Policy; Banks And Banking; Government policy; History
First sentence: One March morning in 1935 Marriner Eccles, recently appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was up on Capitol Hill testifying before the House Committee on Banking and Currency.
Description: "In Politics and Banking Susan Hoffmann explores the influence of public philosophies - in particular, classic liberalism, utilitarianism, progressivism, and populism - on the development of U.S. banking institutions.

Focusing on banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions, Hoffmann demonstrates that though policy makers' political and economic interests surely played a role in the development of these institutions and the policies relating to them, we cannot overlook the importance of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.