Investment Banking in America : A History / Vincent P. Carosso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carosso, Vincent P., author.

Series:

Harvard Studies in Business History ; Volume 25.

Harvard Studies in Business History ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (590 pages). : illustrations.

Edition:

Re-issue.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This is the first work to detail the main developments in the history of American investment banking and to set the story in the general context of American economic, political, and social history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Introduction

Author's Preface

Contents

1 Origins and Developments to 1873

2 From Railroads to Industrials, 1873-1900

3 The Development of the Syndicate to 1914

4 Investments, Investors, and Investment Bankers, 1900-1914

5 Prelude to Federal Investigation

6 Pujo

7 "Blue Sky": The Growth of Securities Regulation

8 Organizing for Defense: Formation of the Investment Bankers Association of America

9 The Passing of the Old Order

10 Investment Banking and Wilsonian Neutrality, 1914- 1917

11 The War Years, 1917-1919

12 The Changing Investment and Financial Environment of the 1920's

13 Investment Banking Firms and the IBA in the 1920's

14 Three Types of Financial Institutions of the 1920's

15 Crash and Depression: The Investment Bankers' Image Transformed

16 The Investment Banker on Trial: The Gray-Pecora Investigation

17 The New Deal on Wall Street: I. Divorcement, Disclosure, Regulation

18 The New Deal on Wall Street: II. More Regulation and Further Adaptation

19 Pujo Revisited: The TNEC

20 Compulsory Competitive Bidding: Perennial Controversy

21 Antitrust

Epilogue: Mid-Century and Later

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 15, 2022).

ISBN:

0-674-73215-4