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The Political Economy of Banking Regulation, 1864–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Eugene Nelson White
Eugene Nelson White
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903.
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Abstract

The laws and regulations that shaped the structure of the banking industry from the Civil War to the Great Depression were strongly influenced by the banking community. In this period legal constraints on banks were weakened by competition between state and federal regulators trying to increase membership in their banking systems. The elimination of regulation was not completed, however, because the politically most powerful group in the industry, the unit banks, had an interest in preserving some regulations.

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Papers Presented at the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 33 - 40
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1982

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