Introduction: American Business, American Politics 1. - Chapter 1: From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence 14. - Chapter 2: A New Life for Old Lobbies 46. - Chapter 3: The Birth of the Business Roundtable 76. - Chapter 4: Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation 106. - Chapter 5: The...

If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare? -- The game of bank bargains -- Tools of conquest and survival : why states need banks -- Privileges with burdens : war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking -- Banks and democracy : Britain in the...