The Trustee Savings Banks, 1817–1861
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10103024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert Fishlow (0000-0001-6561-2313, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-40 |
| Publication date | 1961-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002205070011099x |
| OpenAlex | W2137945058 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 3 |
The economic historian is well aware of the philanthropic origins of savings banks. Both in Western Europe and the United States they were initially established by public spirited individuals as a depository for the funds of small savers. It is not so widely appreciated that such banks were encouraged officially as a part of social policy in England during the nineteenth century. In an age in which self-help and individual thrift were conceived as the only solutions for lower-class poverty and distress, a means of spreading such virtues was sure not to go unnoticed. Brought forward in those critical years at the end of the Napoleonic wars, “here was the first constructive and practical proposal for counteracting the growing pauperization of the community, restoring independence to the masses, stopping the growth of the poor rate, and giving the ordinary man and woman some interest in the financial stability of the country.”
Bank account · Business · Constructive · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Financial distress · Financial system · Independence (probability theory · Interest rate · Payment · Poverty · Savings account · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
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Mutual Savings Bank Depositors in New York
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For All Intents and Purposes
Working-Class Households and Savings in England, 1850–1880
The Widow, the Clergyman and the Reckless”
Were Small-town New Yorkers Life-cycle Savers
She possessed her own fortune’
Helping the poor help themselves
Profligacy in the encouragement of thrift’
Varieties of Banking and Regional Economic Development in the United States, 1840-1860
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2026 (52) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |