Experience of Free Banking
Author: Kevin Dowd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-26
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1134945604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Free Banking and Monetary Reform
Author: David Glasner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-08-25
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0521361753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book boldly challenges the conventional view that the state must play a dominant role in the monetary system.
The Theory of Free Banking
Author: George A. Selgin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
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The Art of Islamic Banking and Finance
Author: Yahia Abdul-Rahman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-12-09
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0470572612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed look at the fast-growing field of Islamic banking and finance The Art of Islamic Banking and Finance is a modern American take on what it means to incorporate Islamic finance principles into everyday banking and investment techniques by introducing a new brand of banking for all people of all faiths: The Riba-Free (RF) banking. The author is considered the father of RF (Islamic) banking in America. He has been a banker and an Imam/scholar for over 40 years in America since 1968. He started the tedious process with a finance company, LARIBA, in Pasadena, California in 1987. This is the first book ever in the field to trace the origins of prohibiting the renting of money at a price called interest rate and over-indulging in debt. The book reviews in great details the theological foundations of prohibiting interest in the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Qur'aan. The author then discusses money and how fiat money is created, the role of the Federal Reserve, and the banking system in America. The book also discusses for the first time ever how to include an important aspect of RF (Islamic) finance using commodity indexation and marking the items to be financed to market in order to avoid participating in economic "bubbles." The author discusses how these rules work, how they affect consumer behavior, and how they change the role of the banker/financier. Covers a new pioneering model that is based on the Law (Shari'aa) and how it is applied in every transaction from joint ventures and portfolio management to home mortgages and personal financing Shows how to incorporate the Law (Shari'aa) into American financing and banking systems Points to RF (Islamic) finance and banking as a way to emphasize socially responsible investing The Art of Islamic Banking and Finance also includes a discussion on the emergence of a culture of RF (Islamic) banking and finance today, which is based on the real Judeo-Christian-Islamic spirit and very effective when compared to twentieth-century models that use financial engineering and structuring techniques to circumvent the Law (Shari'aa). The book also includes case studies based on the actual experience of the author and detailed analysis of the superior results realized by applying this new brand of banking to financing.
Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, And Economic Order
Author: Steven Horwitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0429722885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with the origin and functions of money and banking, emphasizing the role both play in the promotion of economic order. Developing the insights of Hayek and others of the Austrian tradition, Professor Horwitz argues that an appreciation of the spontaneous evolutionary processes that produce and maintain our monetary institutions shou
The Bank That Lived a Little
Author: Philip Augar
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0241335981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies and their adherents, Philip Augar gives a riveting account of Barclays' journey from an old Quaker bank to a full-throttle capitalist machine. The disagreement between those ambitious for Barclays to join the top table of global banks, and those preferring a smaller domestic role more in keeping with the bank's traditions, cost three chief executives their jobs and continues to divide opinion within Barclays, the City and beyond. This is an extraordinary corporate thriller, which among much else describes how Barclays came to buy Lehman Brothers for a bargain price in 2008, why it was so keen to avoid taking government funding during the financial crisis, and the price shareholders have paid for a decade of barely controlled ambition. But Augar also shows how Barclays' experiences are a paradigm for Britain's social and economic life over thirty years, which saw the City move from the edge of the economy to its very centre. These decades created unprecedented prosperity for a tiny number, and made the reputations of governments and individuals but then left many of them in tatters. The leveraged society, the winner-takes-all mentality and our present era of austerity can all be traced to the influence of banks such as Barclays. Augar's book tells this rollercoaster story from the perspective of many of its participants - and also of those affected by the grip they came to have on Britain.
Legislating Instability
Author: Tyler Beck Goodspeed
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-04-04
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0674969014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1716 to 1845, Scotland’s banks were among the most dynamic and resilient in Europe, effectively absorbing a series of adverse economic shocks that rocked financial markets in London and on the continent. Legislating Instability explains the seeming paradox that the Scottish banking system achieved this success without the government controls usually considered necessary for economic stability. Eighteenth-century Scottish banks operated in a regulatory vacuum: no central bank to act as lender of last resort, no monopoly on issuing currency, no legal requirements for maintaining capital reserves, and no formal limits on bank size. These conditions produced a remarkably robust banking system, one that was intensely competitive and served as a prime engine of Scottish economic growth. Despite indicators that might have seemed red flags—large speculative capital flows, a fixed exchange rate, and substantial external debt—Scotland successfully navigated two severe financial crises during the Seven Years’ War. The exception was a severe financial crisis in 1772, seven years after the imposition of the first regulations on Scottish banking—the result of aggressive lobbying by large banks seeking to weed out competition. While these restrictions did not cause the 1772 crisis, Tyler Beck Goodspeed argues, they critically undermined the flexibility and resilience previously exhibited by Scottish finance, thereby elevating the risk that another adverse economic shock, such as occurred in 1772, might threaten financial stability more broadly. Far from revealing the shortcomings of unregulated banking, as Adam Smith claimed, the 1772 crisis exposed the risks of ill-conceived bank regulation.
Banking on Freedom
Author: Shennette Garrett-Scott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0231545215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power in contexts shaped by sexism, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. Garrett-Scott chronicles both the bank’s success and the challenges this success wrought, including extralegal violence and aggressive oversight from state actors who saw black economic autonomy as a threat to both democratic capitalism and the social order. The teller cage and boardroom became sites of activism and resistance as the leadership of president Maggie Lena Walker and other women board members kept the bank grounded in meeting the needs of working-class black women. The first book to center black women’s engagement with the elite sectors of banking, finance, and insurance, Banking on Freedom reveals the ways gender, race, and class shaped the meanings of wealth and risk in U.S. capitalism and society.
The Free Banking Era
Author: Hugh Rockoff
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author argues that free-banking laws enacted before the Civil War generated substantial benefits in the form of a more efficient allocation of capital.
The Family Bank Strategy
Author: David Thomas Phillips
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781507604601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his newest book, David Phillips explains 17 positive features of The Family Bank Strategy and lists 10 factors that have come together to make it one of the premium safe money strategies today. For many of you, The Family Bank Strategy is a way to lock in the value of your estate for loved ones, earn a solid tax-free return on your cash value, and have tax-free access to the capital when you need it. It can play an important role in increasing your family's after-tax wealth.
