TY - BOOK ID - 11332257 TI - Conservatives versus wildcats : a sociology of financial conflict PY - 2013 SN - 0804785090 0804785554 9780804785556 9780804785099 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Banks and banking -- Social aspects -- Case studies. KW - Banks and banking -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. KW - Credit -- Social aspects -- Case studies. KW - Finance -- Social aspects -- Case studies. KW - Banks and banking KW - Credit KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Banking KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Agricultural banks KW - Banking industry KW - Commercial banks KW - Depository institutions KW - Funding KW - Funds KW - Borrowing KW - Financial institutions KW - Money KW - Economics KW - Currency question KW - Loans KW - E-books KW - 331.160 KW - 333.101 KW - 333.78 KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - IT / Italy - Italië - Italie KW - US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis KW - Financiële geschiedenis: algemeenheden KW - Banksysteem en bankstelsel KW - Kredietcontrole. Credit crunch UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11332257 AB - For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force. Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying themselves with political elites to restrict access to credit. Barriers to credit create social resistance, so rival bankers—wildcats—attempt to subvert the status quo by using money as a tool for breaking existing boundaries. For instance, wildcats may increase the circulation of existing currencies, incorporate new actors in financial markets, or produce altogether new financial instruments to create change. Using examples from the economic and social histories of 19th-century America and Italy, two decentralized polities where challenges to sound banking originated from above and below, this book reveals the collective tactics that conservative bankers devise to legitimize strict boundaries around credit—and the transgressive strategies that wildcat bankers employ in their challenge to this restrictive stance. ER -