Date of Award
1923
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Department
Business Administration
Abstract
The business of banking is of great antiquity and in its simpler forms no doubt was understood and practiced by the Assyrians, Babylonians and Athenians. As the taking of interest for money lies at the root of all banking and furnishes the chief motive for it, wherever a people were sufficiently advanced to loan money for hire, there would naturally spring up many of the practices and methods of modern banking...
Recommended Citation
Coveney, Matthew J., "The History of Banking in Wisconsin" (1923). Bachelors’ Theses. 451.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/451
Comments
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for Bachelor of Science Degree of Economics, from the Robt. A. Johnston School of Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.