Banking
by William Amasa Scott
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About this eBook
- Author
- Scott, William Amasa, 1862-1944
- Credits
- Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HG: Social sciences: Finance
- Subject
- Banks and banking
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32027
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32027
- Release Date
- April 17, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BANKING — BY William A. Scott, Ph.D., LL.D. Director of the Course in Commerce and Professor of Political Economy in the University of Wisconsin — CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1914
- 2.EDITOR'S PREFACE
- 3.AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS — BANKING
- 5.CHAPTER I The Nature, Functions, and Classification of Banking Institutions — 1. Services Performed by Banking Institutions — 2. The Economic Functions of Banks — 3. Classification of Banking Institutions
- 6.CHAPTER II The Nature and Operations of Commercial Banking — 1. Commercial Paper — 2. The Operation of Discount — 3. The Conduct of Checking Accounts — 4. The Issue of Notes — 5. Collections — 6. Domestic Exchange — 7. Foreign Exchange
- 7.CHAPTER III The Problems of Commercial Banking — 1. The Supply of Cash — 2. The Selection of Loans and Discounts — 3. Rates — 4. Protection against Unsound Practices — 5. Adequacy and Economy of Service
- 8.CHAPTER IV Commercial Banking in the United States — 1. State Banks — 2. National Banks — 3. The Independent Treasury System — 4. The Interrelations of These Institutions — 5. Operation of the System — 6. Plans for Reform
- 9.CHAPTER V Commercial Banking in Other Countries — 1. Common Features — 2. The English System — 3. The French System — 4. The German System — 5. The Canadian System
- 10.CHAPTER VI Investment Banking — 1. Saving and Savings Institutions — 2. Trust Companies — 3. Bond Houses and Investment Companies — 4. Land Banks — 5. Stock Exchanges — 6. Some Defects in Our Investment Banking Machinery
- 11.REFERENCES
- 12.INDEX
- 13.The National Social Science Series — Edited by Frank L. McVey, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University of North Dakota — Now Ready — In Preparation — Each, Fifty Cents Net — A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO
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