TY - BOOK AU - Lavelle,Kathryn C TI - Money and banks in the American political system SN - 9781107609167 U1 - 332.10973 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Finance KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Financial institutions KW - Banks and banking KW - Financial crises KW - Monetary policy KW - Economic policy N1 - 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 ER -