Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Charles W. Calomiris
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Charles W. Calomiris
Looks at the history of the banking systems of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, arguing that banking crises and scarce credit result from the ways that politics and banking intersect in a given country.