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OverviewAs recently as thirty years ago, Americans lived in a financial world that today seems distant. Investment and borrowing choices were meager: virtually all transactions were conducted in cash or by check. The financial services industry was heavily regulated, as an outgrowth of the Depression, while an elaborate safety net was constructed to prevent a repeat of that dismal episode in American history. Today, consumers and businesses have a dizzying array of choices about where to invest and borrow. Plastic credit cards and electronic transfers increasingly are replacing cash and checks. Much regulation has been dismantled, although the industry remains fragmented by rules that continue to separate banks from other enterprises. Meanwhile, finance has gone global and increasingly high-tech. This book, originally prepared as a report to Congress by the Treasury Department, outlines a framework for setting policy toward the financial services industry in the coming decades. The authors, who worked closely with senior Treasury officials in developing their recommendations, identify three core principles that lie at the heart of that framework: an enhanced role for competition; a shift in emphasis from preventing failures of financial institutions at all cost toward containing the damage of any failures that inevitably occur in a competitive market; and a greater reliance on more targeted interventions to achieve policy goals rather than broad measures, such as flat prohibitions on certain activities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert E. Litan , Jonathan Rauch , Robert E. RubinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Brookings Institution Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.027kg ISBN: 9780815752882ISBN 10: 0815752881 Pages: 211 Publication Date: 30 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRobert E. Litan is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Among his many books is Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale University Press, 2007), written with William J. Baumol and Carl J. Schramm. Jonathan Rauch is a contributing editor of the National Journal and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution who has written widely on a variety of public policy issues. His books include Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (Times Books, 1994) and Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (Chicago, 1995). Robert E. Rubin is Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Member of the OFfice of the Chairman of Citigroup, Inc. He was formerly U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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