37 CLASSIC BANKING BOOKS YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FOR FREE (with links)

A Maxfield on Banks curated list for bankers, investors and banking enthusiasts.

Some of the best books on banking can be found online for free. Walter Bagehot’s Lombard Street is a case in point. It was written in 1873, yet it remains one of the most relevant and important books on banking today.

You’ll find below a Maxfield on Banks curated list of 37 such books. They’re available to download for free from a variety of sources, including Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library, The Library of Congress and FRASER, the digital library maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Underlined links to the free PDF downloads of each book are provided in the list below, which is organized by author.

37 BANKING BOOKS YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FOR FREE

American Academy of Political & Social Science, Lessons of the Financial Crisis (1908).

Bagehot, Walter, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873).

Barnes, Andrew W., History of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Banks and Banking Interests (1911)…