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Review Of "The First American Frontier: Transition To Capitalism In Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860,"By W.A. Dunaway, Mike Allen
SIAS Faculty Publications
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Chicopee River Watershed Study Chicopee, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Chicopee River Watershed Study Chicopee, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The goal of this studio is to provide our client with an assessment of conditions and attitudes within the Chicopee Watershed, which is located in Chicopee, Massachusetts. This information can then be used by the client in its effort to increase participation in watershed protection. To achieve this goal, the studio has set out four objectives. The first is to give an overview of land uses, social and economic trends in the watershed. The second is to review existing town regulations and compare them with model bylaws and regulations. The third is to gather opinions from the various people in …
Effect Of Regulation On Banking: California 1879-1929, Lynne Doti, Richard Runyon
Effect Of Regulation On Banking: California 1879-1929, Lynne Doti, Richard Runyon
Economics Faculty Articles and Research
California had a virtually unregulated banking environment until the first comprehensive banking regulations were passed in 1905. These regulations, and subsequent changes in 1909, required reserves and paid-up capital. Several tests of commonly accepted measures of safety, such as bank reserves, paid-up capital, bank failures, and real estate loans that resulted in foreclosure, are compared for selected years before and after the regulations. Results do not clearly demonstrate that regulation enhanced the safety of individual banks, but do support the conclusion that regulation enhanced the safety of the banking system as a whole.