J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-49837-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 736 g

During the interwar period, J.P. Morgan was the most important bank in the world and at the crossroads of US politics, international relations and finance. In J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism, Martin Horn brings us the first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism, shedding new light on the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the coming of World War II. Horn shows how J.P. Morgan & Co as a business responded to the 1929 Crash and the Depression, including its part in the New York Stock Exchange Crash, arguing that the Morgan partners misread the seriousness of the crash. He also offers new insights into the interactions of politics and finance, exploring J.P. Morgan's relationship with the Hoover administration and the bank's clash with Roosevelt over New Deal legislation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horn, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'The Heart of Contemporary Capitalism': The Partners and their Bank; 2. J.P. Morgan & Co. at home and abroad in the 1920s; 3. The Young Plan, the Bank for International Settlements and the Wall Street Crash, 1929–30; 4. 'The End of the World'? The 1931 Crises; 5. 'Witchcraft': J.P. Morgan & Co., Hoover, and the Depression in the United States, 1930–1933; 6. 'In the storm cellar': J.P. Morgan & Co. and the New Deal 1933–36; 7. J.P. Morgan & Co., and the foreign policy of the New Deal: Germany, Italy, Japan and the Nye committee, 1933–37; 8. The Coming of War and the End of the Partnership, 1937–40; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Horn, Martin
Martin Horn is Associate Dean Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University. His previous publications include Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War (2002) and with Dr. Talbot Imlay, The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany, (2014).