1st Edition

The National Banks and American Economic Development, 1870-1900

By Helen Hill Updike Copyright 1985
    142 Pages
    by Routledge

    142 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, first published in 1985, is a study of the functioning of one sector of American capital markets – non-reserve city national banks – between 1870 and 1900. The unusually wide and deep expansion of the American economy in this period was impelled in part by the growth and development of agriculture, and this study examines the role of one source of loanable funds – banks chartered under the National Banking Acts – in providing American farmers with loans to expand and capitalize.

    1. The American Economy and the National Banking System, 1870-1900  1.1. Government Policy  1.2. Contemporaneous Scholarly Analysis  1.3. Recent Scholarly Analysis  2. Rural American Capital Markets, 1870-1900  3. Models of Rural Funds Markets in Developing Economies  3.1. The United States as a Developing Economy  3.2. Structuralism Versus Monetarism  4. Regression Results

    Biography

    Helen Hill Updike