Course description: Banks, which were first created in primitive form by goldsmiths hundreds of years ago, have evolved into central economic institutions that manage the allocation of resources, channel information about productive activities, and offer the public convenient investment vehicles.
Here is a Yale University course, provided by Robert Shiller, on the evolution and operation of banks.
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