If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare?
The game of bank bargains
Tools of conquest and survival : why states need banks
Privileges with burdens : war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking
Banks and democracy : Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Crippled by populism : U.S. banking from colonial times to 1990
The new U.S. bank bargain : megabanks, urban activists, and the erosion of mortgage standards
Leverage, regulatory failure, and the subprime crisis
Durable partners : politics and banking in Canada
Mexico : chaos makes cronyism look good
When autocracy fails : banking and politics in Mexico since 1982
Inflation machines : banking and state finance in imperial Brazil
The democratic consequences of inflation-tax banking in Brazil
Traveling to other places : is our sample representative?
Reality is a plague on many houses.
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Fragile by design : the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit by Charles W. Calomiris. ISBN 9780691155241. Published by Princeton University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
