Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Financial history: Lessons of the past for reformers of the present
- 2 The evolution of central banking
- 3 Free banking: The Scottish experience as a model for emerging economies
- 4 Regulation and bank stability: Canada and the United States, 1870–1980
- 5 Deposit insurance
- 6 Contingent liability in banking: Useful policy for developing countries?
- 7 Universal banking and the financing of industrial development
- 8 Before main banks: A selective historical overview of Japan's prewar financial system
- 9 Thrift deposit institutions in Europe and the United States
- 10 The development of industrial pensions in the United States during the twentieth century
- 11 The rise of securities markets: What can government do?
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Financial history: Lessons of the past for reformers of the present
- 2 The evolution of central banking
- 3 Free banking: The Scottish experience as a model for emerging economies
- 4 Regulation and bank stability: Canada and the United States, 1870–1980
- 5 Deposit insurance
- 6 Contingent liability in banking: Useful policy for developing countries?
- 7 Universal banking and the financing of industrial development
- 8 Before main banks: A selective historical overview of Japan's prewar financial system
- 9 Thrift deposit institutions in Europe and the United States
- 10 The development of industrial pensions in the United States during the twentieth century
- 11 The rise of securities markets: What can government do?
- Index
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- Reforming Financial SystemsHistorical Implications for Policy, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997