1st Edition
The Second Bank of the United States �Central� banker in an era of nation-building, 1816�1836
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Origin and purposes of the Second Bank
Chapter Three: The Second Bank’s branch network and the state banking system
Chapter Four: The Second Bank and the "exchanges": conquering space
Chapter Five: The "production" of monetary stability
Chapter Six: The Second Bank’s specie market operations
Chapter Seven: Conclusion
Biography
Jane Ellen Knodell is Mark J. Zwynenburg Green and Gold Professor of Financial History at the University of Vermont, USA. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of money and banking, macroeconomics, and economic history.
"Overall, this book is an important contribution to the understanding of the Second Bank of the United States and an excellent point of reference for scholars of early American economic and political history." - Claire Brennecke, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
