Glock The Dead Pledge

The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54985-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Today, the federal government underwrites a financial system built around mortgage lending. In The Dead Pledge, Judge Glock reveals the surprising origins of this entanglement in forgotten economic ideas and policies that held sway from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glock, Judge Earl

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Making the Land Liquid: The Roots of Land Banking
2. The Special Privileges of the Federal Banks
3. The Federal Land Banks and Financial Distress, 1916–1926
4. Falling Prices and Mortgage Crisis, 1926–1933
5. Herbert Hoover and the Urban-Mortgage Crisis in the Great Depression
6. A New Deal for Farm Mortgages
7. Housing, Heavy Industry, and the Forgotten New Deal Banking Act
8. An Economy Balanced by Mortgages
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Judge Glock is a senior policy advisor with the Cicero Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. His work has been featured in the Journal of American History, Business History Review, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.