The Government of Markets How Interwar Collaborations between the CBOT and the State Created Modern Futures Trading /

• Main Author: Saleuddin, Rasheed (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
• Subjects: Finance-History.; Investment banking.; Securities.; Financial History.; Investments and Securities.

Absent evidence to the contrary, it is usually assumed that US financial markets developed in spite of government attempts to regulate, and therefore laissez faire is the best approach for developing critically important and enduring market institutions. This book makes heavy use of extensive archiv...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction-The Interwar Coming of Age of Modern Futures Markets, Institutions and Governance
• Chapter 2. The Wild Midwest
• Chapter 3. The Grain Futures Act of 1922 and the Dominance of the CBOT
• Chapter 4. The Co-construction of Modern Futures Markets, 1923-26
• Chapter 5. Legitimising the Grain Gambler and the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936
• Chapter 6. The Legacy, Causes and Relevance of Interwar Futures Market Regulation.