{"product_id":"the-development-of-american-finance-hardback-9780521195256","title":"The Development of American Finance (Hardback) 9780521195256","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Development of American Finance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book argues that the American financial system is in fact far from a house of cards, but a proper edifice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartijn Konings (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521195256, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“In The Development of American Finance, the international political economist Martijn Konings provides a succinct and useful account of approximately three hundred years of American financial history. Readers seeking an overview written from a distinct point of view will find the book valuable and thought provoking.” -Julia Cathleen Ott, The New School, The Journal of American History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince the 1960s, scholars and other commentators have frequently announced the imminent decline of American financial power: excessive speculation and debt are believed to have undermined the long-term basis of a stable US-led financial order. But the American financial system has repeatedly shown itself to be more resilient than such assessments suggest. This book argues that there is considerable coherence to American finance: far from being a house of cards, it is a proper edifice, built on institutional foundations with points of both strength and weakness. The book examines these foundations through a historical account of their construction: it shows how institutional transformations in the late nineteenth century created a distinctive infrastructure of financial relations and proceeds to trace the contradiction-ridden expansion of this system during the twentieth century as well as its institutional consolidation during the neoliberal era. It concludes with a discussion of the forces of instability that hit at the start of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Finance from Britain to the American colonies\u003cbr\u003e 3. The financial dynamics of antebellum America\u003cbr\u003e 4. Contours of American finance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Contradictions of early twentieth-century financial expansion\u003cbr\u003e 6. The United States and international finance in the interwar period\u003cbr\u003e 7. New foundations for financial expansion\u003cbr\u003e 8. Contradictions of the dollar\u003cbr\u003e 9. The domestic expansion of American finance\u003cbr\u003e 10. Contradictions of late twentieth-century financial expansion\u003cbr\u003e 11. The neoliberal consolidation of American financial power\u003cbr\u003e 12. Contradictions of the present.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Political economy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political economy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20economy%20%5BKCP%5D%22\"\u003eKCP\u003c\/a\u003e], International economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20economics%20%5BKCL%5D%22\"\u003eKCL\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006919233816,"sku":"9780521195256","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521195256i_610bf94f-60f5-4ea5-9177-ddbbf9be4064.jpg?v=1691373768","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-development-of-american-finance-hardback-9780521195256","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}