'Growth of firms in the domestic banking sector' in M W Kirby & M B Rose (eds), Business Enterprise in Modern Britain from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

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Chapter contributing to a textbook. Deals with the changing structure of British retail banking in the 19th century, from multiple private banks to fewer large, geographically spread and stable joint stock banks, the permissive legal structure that made this possible notably ahead of other countries, the consequent oligopoly structure of domestic banking. Has sections: 'Theoretical parameters to growth'; 'Organisational development - overview of banking services'; 'Organisational development - commercial retail banks'; 'Legislation and the growth of joint stock banking'; 'Nature of retail banking and the emergence of large scale banks'; 'Trend towards greater market concentration'