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Isaac Bronson: His Banking Theory and the Financial Controversies of the Jacksonian Period

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  • Venit, Abraham H.

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Isaac bronson was a highly successful financier of the Jacksonian era who was also one of the period's most original and influential banking theorists. Bronson accumulated his very considerable fortune in New York primarily by judicious personal money-lending operations on long-term bonds and mortgages at a cautious 7 per cent annual return, supplemented by successful ventures in land speculation. In addition to wealth, he had by the 1830's acquired a weighty reputation for sober financial conservatism and was regarded as an authoritative exponent of sound banking principles. Prominent in the financial community, he had long thrown his weight as a sound banking theorist against the “wild-cat†practices of the then rampant state banks. As controlling stockholder of the Bridgeport Bank for almost thirty years, and as president for much of that time, he prided himself on its successful weathering of the financial storms of the period.â€

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  • Venit, Abraham H., 1945. "Isaac Bronson: His Banking Theory and the Financial Controversies of the Jacksonian Period," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(2), pages 201-214, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:5:y:1945:i:02:p:201-214_11
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