The Bank of the State of Missouri / / John Ray Cable.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cable, John Ray,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1969]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 1969
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Studies the economics of the state of Missouri beginning in the early 1800's. Looks at the founding of the Bank of the State of Missouri in 1837 through its assimilation and nationalization in 1866.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. The Period Before 1830 -- I. Economic Conditions in Early Missouri -- II. National Conditions Affecting Early Missouri Banking -- III. Early and Unfortunate Ventures in Banking and Currency -- IV. Some Early Experiences in Sound Banking -- Part II. The Period of Monopoly -- V. The Demand for a State Bank -- VI. The Passage of the Bank Bill -- VII. The Charter -- VIII. How the Charter was Made -- IX. The Organization of the Bank -- X. The State Bank and the Panic of 1837 -- XI. The Fight Against Unsound Money -- XII. The Career of the Bank, 1843–1857 -- XIII. An Economic and Statistical Study of the Accounts of the Bank -- Part III. The Break-Down of Banking Monopoly -- XIV. Private Banking and Business Development -- XV. The Demand for Additional Banking Capital -- XVI. The Legislation of 1857 and Banking Progress;until the Outbreak of the Civil War -- XVII. Missouri Banking During the Civil War -- XVIII. The Sale of the State Stock -- Part IV. The Final Period -- XIX. The National Bank of the State of Missouri -- XX. The Failure of the Bank -- Bibliography -- Appendix