Inflated : how money and debt built the American dream / R. Christopher Whalen.
Inflated : how money and debt built the American dream / R. Christopher Whalen.
Inflated : how money and debt built the American dream / R. Christopher Whalen.
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Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.
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N332.10973/48
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English
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xxii, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface. -- Acknowledgments. -- Chapter One Free Banking and Private Money. -- The Bank of the United States. -- State Debt Defaults. -- The Age of Andrew Jackson. -- The Panic of 1837. -- The Gold Rush. -- The Rise of Bank Clearinghouses. -- Chapter Two Lincoln Save...
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Publisher
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.
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New Jersey
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c2011.
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"Americans as a whole view themselves as reasonably prudent and sober people when it comes to matters of money, reflecting the puritan roots of the earliest European settlers. Yet as a community, we also seem to believe that we are entitled to a lifestyle that is well-beyond our current income, a tendency that goes back to the earliest days of the...
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Inflated : how money and debt built the American dream / R. Christopher Whalen.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N332.10973/48
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74VM0WKyzLMg
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0470875143 (hardback)
9780470875148 (hardback)
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332.10973
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991001787779702626
