Lavelle, Kathryn C <br/><br/>
Money and banks in the American political system / 
Kathryn C. Lavelle. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  c2013. 
 - xxi, 306 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and index. 
<br/><br/>The institutional foundations of financial politics in the US -- Developing state capacity for the conduct of American finance -- Creating increasingly complex financial products -- Making financial policy in Congress -- Making financial policy in the Executive branch and the Federal bureaucracy -- Making financial policy in the Federal Reserve system -- The process in motion: political institutions, money, and the business cycle -- The process approaches collapse: politics in the financial crisis of 2008 -- The process in its international context: politics in international institutions -- Governing the us financial system. 
<br/><br/> avelle argues that political sources of instability in finance derive from the intersection of market innovation and regulatory arbitrage. This book explores monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies within a political culture characterized by the separation of business and state, and mistrust of power concentration in one political or economic institution.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107028043 (hbk.) 9781107609167 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012024939 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Finance--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Financial institutions--United States.<br/>Banks and banking--United States.<br/>Financial crises--United States.<br/>Monetary policy--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Economic policy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG181  / .L28 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.10973