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Finance in an age of austerity : the power of customer-owned banks / Johnston Birchall, professor of social policy at Stirling University, UK

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham, U.K ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013Description: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 235 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781781951842
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781781951835. | 9781782544890. | Erscheint auch als: Finance in an age of austerity. Druck-Ausgabe Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2013. IX, 235 S.RVK: RVK: QK 400 | QK 410LOC classification:
  • HG2035
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781781951842Online resources: Summary: This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks – credit unions, co-operative banks, building societies – have hardly been affected by the crisis and continue to operate according to their organisational DNA: low-risk, close to the customer, underpinned by real savings, and still lending to SMEs to protect jobs and local economies. They are big business – in some countries with over 40% of the market – but networked in smaller, democratic societies whose origins go back to 1850s Germany.PPN: PPN: 1023441853Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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