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Lavelle, Kathryn C

Money and banks in the American political system / Kathryn C Lavelle - New York : Cambridge University Press, c2013 - xxi, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and index

The institutional foundations of financial politics in the US -- Developing state capacity for the conduct of American finance -- Creating increasingly complex financial products -- Making financial policy in Congress -- Making financial policy in the Executive branch and the Federal bureaucracy -- Making financial policy in the Federal Reserve system -- The process in motion: political institutions, money, and the business cycle -- The process approaches collapse: politics in the financial crisis of 2008 -- The process in its international context: politics in international institutions -- Governing the us financial system.

ISBN: 9781107609167 $29.99 9781107028043 (hbk.) 9781107609167 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Finance--Political aspects--United States
Financial institutions--United States
Banks and banking--United States
Financial crises--United States
Monetary policy--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic policy

Dewey Class. No.: 332.10973 / LAV