Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic

by Christopher W. Shaw

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved institutions and people in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is held in high regard by few outside the financial sector. But the pitchforks raised against this behemoth are largely rhetorical: we rarely see riots in the streets or public demands for an equitable and democratic banking system that result in serious national changes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022663633X
• ISBN13: 9780226636337
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"