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Author(s): Robert J. Brugger
Review by: Robert J. Brugger
Source: The Business History Review, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter, 1974), pp. 565-567
Published by: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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be found in the Annual Report for 1960 of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston. Nothing of consequence has been changed, not even the charts.
In the past fifteen years, however, the field of investment banking has
evolved considerably.For example, the "funds"have come to dominate
certain issues, yet nowhere is there any treatment of this importantdevelopment.
The study is not the work of one man, rather it was organized and
directed by ParkerB. Willis, an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston. His principal assistantwas Bruce David, who was aided
by a number of persons drawn from both the academic and investment
banking communitiesin and around Boston. The usual pitfalls of such an
arrangementhave been successfully circumvented and the monograph
reads as if it had been writtenby one person.
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