Banking
Leveraged maturity transformation with an implicit state backstop; the literature is mostly about what happens when that breaks.
9 books · 21 people behind it
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- Lombard StreetWalter Bagehot, 1873
- The House of MorganRon Chernow, 1990
- The Bankers' New ClothesAnat Admati, Martin Hellwig, 2013
The people behind it 21
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 2
Academics 5
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Charles P. Kindlebergernamed in their tagsSH
Sidney Homernamed in their tagsFP
Frank Partnoynamed in their tagsNF
Niall Fergusonnamed in their tagsED
Emanuel Dermannamed in their tagsJournalists 14
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Ron Chernow2 books here
Michael Lewis1 book here
Andrew Ross Sorkin1 book hereCD
Charles D. Ellisnamed in their tagsRL
Roger Lowensteinnamed in their tags
Bethany McLeannamed in their tagsCB
Connie Brucknamed in their tagsFP
Frank Partnoynamed in their tagsFL
Frederick Lewis Allennamed in their tagsGT
Gillian Tettnamed in their tagsNF
Niall Fergusonnamed in their tagsWD
William D. Cohannamed in their tagsDK
David Kynastonnamed in their tagsPA
Philip Augarnamed in their tagsBooks 9
T1 Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 1989 · Insider account of Salomon Brothers and the mortgage desk.
Ron Chernow · 1990 · Four generations of Anglo-American finance; National Book Award.
Ron Chernow · 2004 · Chernow on the man who built American public credit and its bank
Ferdinand Pecora · 1939 · The investigator's own account of the hearings that produced the SEC
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009 · The definitive blow-by-blow of the 2008 rescue.
Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig · 2013 · The case for far higher bank equity capital.
Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber · 2014 · Banking crises as outcomes of political bargains, not accidents.
David Enrich · 2017 · The Libor rigging scandal told through the traders who ran it