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Money, power, and the people : the American struggle to make banking democratic
2019,2022
Overview
An \"engaging and well-researched study [of] ordinary people who joined together to challenge financial institutions\" ( Choice).
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.
Yet the situation was vastly different a century ago, as Christopher W. Shaw shows. This book upends the conventional thinking that financial policy in the early twentieth century was set primarily by the needs and demands of bankers. Shaw shows that banking and politics were directly shaped by the literal and symbolic investments of the grassroots. This engagement remade financial institutions and the national economy, through populist pressure and the establishment of federal regulatory programs and agencies like the Farm Credit System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Shaw reveals the surprising groundswell behind seemingly arcane legislation, as well as the power of the people to demand serious political repercussions for the banks that caused the Great Depression. One result of this sustained interest and pressure was legislation and regulation that brought on a long period of relative financial stability, with a reduced frequency of economic booms and busts. Ironically, this stability led to the decline of the very banking politics that brought it about.
Giving voice to a broad swath of American figures, including workers, farmers, politicians, and bankers alike, Money, Power, and the People recasts our understanding of what might be possible in balancing the needs of the people with those of their financial institutions.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press,The University of Chicago Press
Subject
/ Bank
/ bankers
/ banking
/ banks
/ Banks and banking -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Banks and banking -- Social aspects -- United States
/ Banks and banking -- United States -- Citizen participation
/ Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking
/ citizens
/ crisis
/ economy
/ farmers
/ federal deposit insurance corporation
/ finances
/ history
/ HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
/ laborers
/ law
/ legality
/ money
/ nation
/ national
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
/ politics
/ populism
/ populist
/ power
/ struggle
/ USA
/ workers
ISBN
022663633X, 9780226636337, 9780226636474, 022663647X
