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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      September 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511571992
      9780521770231
      9780521025478
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571992
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 180 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.274kg, 180 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, History, Economic History
      Series:
      Studies in Macroeconomic History
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    Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, History, Economic History
    Series:
    Studies in Macroeconomic History
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    This was the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author has constructed estimates of bank closures and their incidence in each of the five separate banking disturbances. The book takes a novel approach by reconstructing the course of banking panics in the interior, where suspension of cash payment, not bank closures, was the primary effect of banking panics on the average person. The author also re-evaluates the role of the New York Clearing House in forestalling several panics and explains why it failed to do so in 1893 and 1907, concluding that structural defects of the National Banking Act were not the primary cause of the panics.

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    "Elmus Wicker's fascinating new book on banking panics is an imaginative investigation." EH.NET (March2001)

    "Banking Panics of the Gilded Age...enhances our understanding of the crucial developments leading to the creation of our central bank and financial future...this book does make an important contribution to our understanding of U.S. banking history. Wicker's narrative and empirical support combine to paint a picture of the national banking era that is more comprehensive than previous work. Further, his concentration on Clearing House behavior forces his readers to critically re-evaluate their understanding of banking during the Gilded Age." Eastern Economic Review

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