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- catalog abstract "The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation failed spectacularly during the 1980s, costing taxpayers perhaps $200 billion. In this award-winning analysis, Mark Rom examines the political causes of this "thrift tragedy." He directly confronts - and rejects - the dominant scholarly "public choice" view that public officials were motivated mainly by self-interest. Instead, Rom argues that politicians and bureaucrats generally acted in the "public spirit" by attempting to obtain the common interest as they saw it. Using new evidence and innovative methods, Rom demonstrates that FSLIC's failure unfolded because of commitments that officials had made in the past and their uncertainties about how to fulfill these obligations in the future.".
- catalog contributor b9632481.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy -- 2. A Brief History of the Federal Home Loan Bank System -- 3. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board -- 4. The Federal Home Loan Bank System -- 5. The Bank Board and the Thrift Business -- 6. Congress Before Deregulation -- 7. Congress After Deregulation -- 8. Congressional Voting -- 9. Concluding Words.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-316) and index.".
- catalog description "The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation failed spectacularly during the 1980s, costing taxpayers perhaps $200 billion. In this award-winning analysis, Mark Rom examines the political causes of this "thrift tragedy." He directly confronts - and rejects - the dominant scholarly "public choice" view that public officials were motivated mainly by self-interest. Instead, Rom argues that politicians and bureaucrats generally acted in the "public spirit" by attempting to obtain the common interest as they saw it. Using new evidence and innovative methods, Rom demonstrates that FSLIC's failure unfolded because of commitments that officials had made in the past and their uncertainties about how to fulfill these obligations in the future.".
- catalog extent "ix, 326 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Public spirit in the thrift tragedy.".
- catalog identifier "0822939436 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822956004 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Public spirit in the thrift tragedy.".
- catalog isPartOf "Pitt series in policy and institutional studies".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,".
- catalog relation "Public spirit in the thrift tragedy.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "332.3/2/0973 20".
- catalog subject "HG2152 .R65 1996".
- catalog subject "Savings and loan association failures United States.".
- catalog subject "Thrift institutions Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Board.".
- catalog subject "United States. Federal Home Loan Bank System.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy -- 2. A Brief History of the Federal Home Loan Bank System -- 3. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board -- 4. The Federal Home Loan Bank System -- 5. The Bank Board and the Thrift Business -- 6. Congress Before Deregulation -- 7. Congress After Deregulation -- 8. Congressional Voting -- 9. Concluding Words.".
- catalog title "Public spirit in the thrift tragedy / Mark Carl Rom.".
- catalog type "text".