Lessons from the American Experience with Free Banking

Hugh Rockoff

Chapter 3 in Unregulated Banking, 1991, pp 73-129 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Two decades ago the early history of American banking was dismissed as an object of study for someone concerned about current monetary problems, except perhaps as an object lesson about what can go wrong if the government does not apply a stern regulatory hand to the banking system. An article that appeared in Banker’s Magazine in 1971 entitled ‘The Early Ways and Crazy Days of Banking’ (Lasdon (1971)), accurately reflected contemporary thinking. Since that time, as recently noted by Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz (1986), a number of factors have produced a renewal of interest in radical forms of banking regulation, and this period is now the object of intense research in academic circles.

Keywords: Central Bank; Asset Price; Banking System; Money Supply; Bank Failure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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