The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521394376)

Although international finance and banking has been the subject of research and writing, the economic impact of banks on industrial structures and the relations between banking and industry in the twentieth century have remained relatively unexplored areas. This volume examines and interprets the economic effect of the financing of industry by banks and of the banks' credit intermediation in industrialized economies. Particular attention is given to the interplay of economics and politics, to the connections between bankers and industrialists, and to the significance of interlocking directorships. A special section is devoted to a hitherto wholly neglected problem in economic history: the vital influence of universal banking in small but highly industrialized countries in central Europe and Scandinavia.

Author: Harold James
ISBN-10: 0521394376
ISBN-13: 9780521394376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/1991
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d