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Legislating Instability : Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772 / Tyler Beck Goodspeed.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 4 halftones, 19 graphsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674968998
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.109411/09033 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. A Very Melancholy Situation -- 2. Beggarly Bankers -- 3. Procuring an Act -- 4. Prodigals and Projectors -- 5. Upon Daedalian Wings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: From 1716 to 1845 Scottish banks were among the most dynamic and resilient in Europe, effectively absorbing economic shocks that rocked markets in London and on the continent. Tyler Beck Goodspeed explains the paradox that Scotland’s banking system achieved this success without the regulations Adam Smith considered necessary for economic stability.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. A Very Melancholy Situation -- 2. Beggarly Bankers -- 3. Procuring an Act -- 4. Prodigals and Projectors -- 5. Upon Daedalian Wings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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From 1716 to 1845 Scottish banks were among the most dynamic and resilient in Europe, effectively absorbing economic shocks that rocked markets in London and on the continent. Tyler Beck Goodspeed explains the paradox that Scotland’s banking system achieved this success without the regulations Adam Smith considered necessary for economic stability.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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