This is the first full-length study of five U.S. banking panics of the Great Depression. Professor Wicker reconstructs a close historical narrative of each of the disturbances, investigating their origins, magnitude and effects, and he reappraises the role of Federal Reserve officials in the panics. His findings challenge many of the commonly-held assumptions about the events of 1930 and 1931, and will be of wide interest to students of the Great Depression, monetary and financial historians, financial and macroeconomists.
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"This book is an important contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the banking system and the course of the Great Depression, and it should inspire more detailed investigations of other banking crises to determine whether the lack of contagion was peculiar to the 1930s." John H. Wood, H-Net Reviews
"This book is an important contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the banking system and the course of the Great Depression, and it should inspire more detailed investigations of other banking crises to determine whether the lack of contagion was peculiar to the 1930's." John H. Wood, EH.NET BOOK Review
"Wicker's book is a valuable addition." Robert Whaples, H-Net Reviews
"This book is an important contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the banking system and the course of the Great Depression, and it should inspire more detailed investigations of other banking crises to determine whether the lack of contagion was peculiar to the 1930's." John H. Wood, EH.NET BOOK Review
"Wicker's book is a valuable addition." Robert Whaples, H-Net Reviews
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This is the first full-length study of five U.S. banking panics of the Great Depression. Professor Wicker reconstructs a close historical narrative of each of the disturbances, investigating their origins, magnitude and effects, and he reappraises the role of Federal Reserve officials in the panics. His findings challenge many of the commonly-held assumptions about the events of 1930 and 1931, and will be of wide interest to students of the Great Depression, monetary and financial historians, financial and macroeconomists.
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March a sequence of bank moratoria or bank holidays were declared by the governors of the several states effectively restricting deposit withdrawals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bank moratoria, banking disturbances, bank suspensions, domestic hoarding, banking unrest, central money market, debit data, suspended banks, second banking crisis, denominational currency, first banking crisis, currency hoarding, bond depreciation, national banking holiday, autonomous disturbance, nonmember banks, bank failure rate, depositor confidence, deposit losses, mini panics, increased hoarding, state banking officials, bank moratorium, banking panics, state member banks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Great Depression, First National, Clearing House, Bank of United States, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago District, North Carolina, Chicago Fed, Cleveland District, Louis District, National Credit Corporation, President Hoover, Guardian Trust, Little Rock, Open Market Policy Conference, Secretary of the Treasury, West Virginia, Governor Harrison, Guardian Group, Bank of Pittsburgh, Discussion Notes, Henry Ford, Philadelphia District New!
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March a sequence of bank moratoria or bank holidays were declared by the governors of the several states effectively restricting deposit withdrawals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bank moratoria, banking disturbances, bank suspensions, domestic hoarding, banking unrest, central money market, debit data, suspended banks, second banking crisis, denominational currency, first banking crisis, currency hoarding, bond depreciation, national banking holiday, autonomous disturbance, nonmember banks, bank failure rate, depositor confidence, deposit losses, mini panics, increased hoarding, state banking officials, bank moratorium, banking panics, state member banks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Great Depression, First National, Clearing House, Bank of United States, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago District, North Carolina, Chicago Fed, Cleveland District, Louis District, National Credit Corporation, President Hoover, Guardian Trust, Little Rock, Open Market Policy Conference, Secretary of the Treasury, West Virginia, Governor Harrison, Guardian Group, Bank of Pittsburgh, Discussion Notes, Henry Ford, Philadelphia District New!
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- History of Crises Under the National Banking System by Oliver M. Sprague on page 153, and Back Matter
- The Great Depression (World History Series) by Jacqueline Farrell in Back Matter
- Herbert Hoover (United States Presidents) by Paul Joseph in Back Matter
- The Great Depression Revisited (Rochester Studies in Managerial Economics and Policy) by K. Brunner in Back Matter
- Monetary Economics by Karl Brunner in Back Matter
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- BANKSTERS, BOSSES, and SMART MONEY: SOCIAL HISTORY OF the GREAT TOLEDO BANK CRASH of 1931 by TIMOTHY MESSER-KRUSE on 4 pages
- Banking Panics of the Gilded Age (Studies in Macroeconomic History) by Elmus Wicker in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives (Studies in Macroeconomic History) by Richard C. K. Burdekin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The International Political Economy of Investment Bubbles by Paul Sheeran on page 170, and Back Matter
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