The elusive sovereign -- Paper money and the problem of circulation in the colonial era -- John Wise and the natural law of commerce -- William Douglass and the natural history of credit -- Commercial banking and the problem of representation in the Jacksonian era -- William Leggett and the...

Abstract: Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad...

Democracy declined : the failed politics of consumer financial protection -- Full disclosure : building the U.S. political economy of credit -- "Storming mad" but staying home : depoliticizing the American borrower -- The "horseless headmen" : consumer groups and the challenge of political...