TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calomiris,Charles W.
AU  - Haber,Stephen H.
TI  - Fragile by design : : the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit / 
T2  - The Princeton economic history of the western world
SN  - 9780691155241
U1  - 332.109  21
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton : 
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Crisis bancaria
KW  - Historia
KW  - Sistema financiero
KW  - Crédito
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 507-548) e índice; Fragile by design : the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit Section one: No banks without states, and  no states without banks: 1. No banks without states, and no states without banks -- If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare? ; 2. The game of bank bargains ; 3. Tools of conquest and survival: why states need banks ; 4. Privileges with burdens: war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking ; 5. Banks and democracy: Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Section two. The cost of banker-populist alliances: the United States versus Canada: 6. Crippled by populism: U.S. banking from colonial times to 1990 ; 7. The new U.S. bank bargain: megabanks, urban activists, and the erosion of mortgage standards ; 8. Leverage, regulatory failure, and the subprime crisis ; 9. Durable partners: politics and banking in Canada -- Section three. Authoritarianism, democratic transitions, and the game of bank bargains: 10. Mexico: chaos makes cronyism look good ; 11. When autocracy fails: banking and politics in Mexico since 1982 ; 13. Inflation machines: banking and state finance in imperial Brazil ; 13. The democratic consequences of inflation-tax banking in Brazil -- Section four. Going beyond structural narratives: 14. Traveling to other places: is our sample representative? ; 15. Reality is a plague on many houses.
ER  -