American Finance for the 21st Century
As recently as thirty years ago, Americans lived in a financial world that today seems distant. Investment and borrowing choices were meager: virtually all transactions were conducted in cash or by check. The financial services industry was heavily regulated, as an outgrowth of the Depression, while an elaborate safety net was constructed to prevent a repeat of that dismal episode in American history. Today, consumers and businesses have a dizzying array of choices about where to invest and borrow. Plastic credit cards and electronic transfers increasingly are replacing cash and checks. Much regulation has been dismantled, although the indust…
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Weitere Autoren: Rubin, Robert E. (Solist) / Rauch, Jonathan (Gespielt)
- ISBN: 978-0-8157-3483-3
- EAN: 9780815734833
- Produktnummer: 24724870
- Verlag: Brookings Inst
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 211 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 327 g
- Gewicht: 327
Über den Autor
Robert E. Litan is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Among his many books is Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale University Press, 2007), written with William J. Baumol and Carl J. Schramm. Jonathan Rauch is a contributing editor of the National Journal and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution who has written widely on a variety of public policy issues. His books include Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (Times Books, 1994) and Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (Chicago, 1995). Robert E. Rubin is Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Member of the OFfice of the Chairman of Citigroup, Inc. He was formerly U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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