The Development of American Finance

by Martijn Konings

Book Overview

Since 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107681847
• ISBN13: 9781107681842
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"