IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/psitcp/978-3-319-93184-5_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Introduction: The Interwar Coming of Age of Modern Futures Markets, Institutions and Governance

In: The Government of Markets

Author

Listed:
  • Rasheed Saleuddin

    (University of Cambridge)

Abstract

This introduction to the story of how US government and industry co-constructed many critical modern futures institutions and governance during the interwar years begins with a scene that took place in 1922. Soon after the first (grain—especially wheat and corn) futures regulation was passed, and anti-markets rhetoric was widespread, the Secretary of the dominant exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, wrote to the directorate stating candidly that the legislation was as pro-futures as was possible, and that it was effectively authored by the futures industry in private collaboration with the US government. This chapter introduces a new archive, now once again inaccessible, and uses that record to argue that the behind-the-scenes negotiation and end results bore no resemblance to the public story of how futures markets were modernised and then regulated.

Suggested Citation

  • Rasheed Saleuddin, 2018. "Introduction: The Interwar Coming of Age of Modern Futures Markets, Institutions and Governance," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: The Government of Markets, chapter 0, pages 1-49, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-3-319-93184-5_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93184-5_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-3-319-93184-5_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.