NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
aMarkets and governments in economic history
aNBER series on long-term factors in economic development
Print version: Fishback, Price Van Meter. Well worth saving : how the New Deal safeguarded home ownership. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013] xiv, 173 pages Markets and governments in economic history ISBN 9780226082448
Introduction -- The patchwork mortgage market in the 1920s -- The mortgage crisis -- Pressures for government action -- The economic rationale for the HOLC -- An HOLC primer -- The lenders’ good deal -- The borrowers’ good deal -- Repairing mortgage and housing markets -- The cost to taxpayers and subsidies to the housing market -- Conclusion -- Appendix: -- Walking through the analysis of the impact of the HOLC.