From Partisan Banking to Open Access

Explores how the USA evolved into a modern society in the sense of impersonal rules and open access of organizationsArgues that the USA was not born modern in the sense of competitive economy and polity, shown by early nineteenth-century bankingProvides an explanation of open access banking based on the conceptual framework of intra-elite competition

Autorentext

Qian Lu is Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Was the U.S. Born Modern?.- Chapter 2: The History of Partisan Banking.- Chapter 3: Empirical Studies on Bankers, Legislators, and Political Parties, 17901859.- Chapter 4: Empirical Studies on Political Connection of Suffolk Legislators, 17901859.- Chapter 5: Empirical Studies on Bankers' Wealth and Bank Balance Sheets.- Chapter 6: An Intra-Elite Explanation of Open Access.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Democracy, Civil Society, Elites, and Impersonal Rules.