Fragile by Design

Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries but not in others The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households.Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. 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Calomiris – kino-fada.fr This is a book few people browsing through a bookstore would choose That is a pity It is a very interesting read Its basic premise is that governments need banks and banks need government but that there is an uneasy link between the two.It is divided into several parts there is first a discussion of what functions banks perform for societies and governments and some theory building on how different types of governments function with banks There are several chapters on the development of This is a book few people browsing through a bookstore would choose That is a pity It is a very interesting read Its basic premise is that governments need banks and banks need government but that there is an uneasy link between the two.It is divided i...The main idea institutions matters Authors provide many stories to support that statement, but you need to be quite interested in details to follow To my taste, the book is too boring.Fascinating book with a long term historical perspective complementing cold sound reasoning Particularly in an age where it has become so popular to search for blame moral failings in the banking sector for economic banking crises it is refreshing to see a book which looks at the strings pulling the puppet and the puppet master s incentives Human failings, error and greed are of course always present in any society, but the book s great insight is that in fact banks are not born and neither do Fascinating book with a long term historical perspective complementing cold sound reasoning Particularly in an age where it has become so popular to search for blame moral failings in the banking sector for economic banking crises it is refreshing to see a book which looks at the strings pulling the puppet and the puppet master s incentives Human failings, error and greed are of course always present in any society, but the book s great insight is that in fact banks are not born and neither do they live in a vacuum but rather they are under the strong thumbs of the countries governments that create them as a need for funding and thus their behaviors strongly reflect political demands put on them I find it ironic that those well intentioned individuals fighting against them will on...This one was recommended by my brother Jack, an economist at Victoria University of Wellington He said it is getting good reviews For example What really leaps out at me is how much responsibility liberal activists ACORN, etc bear for causing The Great Recession by pressuring for the lowering of underwriting standards p 208 256 to provide loan access to poor and inner city borrowers So much p 497 for greedy bankers The authors are caref This one was recommended by my brother Jack, an economist at Victoria University of Wellington He said it is getting good reviews For example What really leaps out at me is how much responsibility liberal activists ACORN, etc bear for causing The Great Recession by pressuring for the lowering of underwriting standards p 208 256 to provide loan access to poor and inner city borrowers So much p 497 for greedy bankers The authors are careful to point out that we all went along, but the activists were the drivers In response, p 235 Congress therefore mandated that Fannie and Freddie consider repurchasing mortgages with down payments of 5 percent of less and approving borrowers with histories of delinquent credit Importantly, it also directed Fannie and Freddie to affirmatively assist banks in meeting ...The edition I have shows Stephen Haber as a co author, and his contributions are clear, so it s odd that the authorship shows as above, and my edition is hardcover also.Charles Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and he is well published in the peer reviewed literature and he has testified on the Hill about the mortgage crisis The only reason I don t give a higher rating is that there are two books living bet The edition I have shows Stephen Haber as a co author, and his contributions are clear, so it s odd that the authorship shows as above, and my edition is hardcover also.Charles Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and he is well published in the peer reviewed literature and he has testified on the Hill about the mortgage crisis The o...The fact that the property rights system underpinning banking systems is an outcome of political deal making means that there are no fully private banking systems rather, modern banking is best thought of as a partnership between the government and a group of bankers, a partnership that is shaped by the institutions that govern the distribution of power in the political system The players are those with a stake in the performance of the banking system the group in control of the govern The fact that the property rights system underpinning banking systems is an outcome of political deal making means that there are no fully private banking systems rather, modern banking is best thought of as a partnership between the government and a gro...2018 02 Fragile by Design The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit Audiobook Charles W Calomiris Author Stephen H Haber Author Basil Sands Reader 2014 584 Pages I picked this up at the library on a lark a nod to my curiosity forcing me out of my comfort zone It is a thick academic tome It is a book really about the interplay of banking structures and politics It follows a historical methodology looking at a county and its history through the lens of banking 2018 02 Fragile by Design The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit Audiobook Charles W Calomiris Author Stephen H Haber Author Basil Sands Reader 2014 584 Pages I picked this up at the library on a lark a nod to my curiosity forcing me out of my comfort zone It is a thick academic tome It is a book really about the interplay of banking structures and politics It follows a historical methodology looking at a county and its history through the lens of ba...Heavily focused on history, thus interesting if you are interested in the history of financial systems Five countries thoroughly discussed as examples The book is very long and could have been formatted in ainteresting way by better connecting the historical examples to modern systems.This book is an extended elaboration of the not so shocking truth that governments like to plunder banking systems for the benefit of the powerful few The authors argue that banking is unique among industries in its usefulness to government historically, mainly for the purpose of financing war In the process they demonstrate that the proneness of the U.S banking system to repeated crises is a built in feature o...This book presents an historical analysis of the relationship between banking, government, and politics the political economy of banking The general issues are first raised and an organizing framework is presented This is a complex topic but the framework argues that banking systems develop on the basis of a political bargain between some important set of political actors that can bring about regulation and the banking system, which is both separate from but highly related to the governme This book presents an historical analysis of the relationship between banking, government, and politics the political economy of banking The general issues are first raised and an organizing framework is presented This is a complex topic but the framework argues that banking systems develop on the basis of a political bargain between some important set of political actors that can bring about regulation and the banking system, which is both separate from but highly related to the government These bargains, once enacted, tend to be long lived, because political arrangements on fundamental institutions are hard to change, except when their enabling condition change or when some other events for example, war take place that motivate ...

• English
• 18 June 2018
Charles W. Calomiris
• Hardcover
• 570 pages
• 0691155240
• Charles W. Calomiris
• Fragile by Design