A Monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960

A Monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960 /

Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scho...

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Main Authors: Friedman, Milton, 1912-2006 (Author), Schwartz, Anna J. (Anna Jacobson), 1915-2012 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1971
Series:Studies in business cycles ; no. 12.
Subjects:
Money > United States > History.
Currency question > United States > History.
Monetary policy > United States > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Greenback Period
  • Silver politics and the secular decline in prices, 1879-97
  • Gold inflation and banking reform, 1897-1914
  • Early years of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-21
  • The high tide of the Reserve System, 1921-29
  • The Great Contraction, 1929-33
  • New Deal changes in the banking structure and monetary standard
  • Cyclical changes, 1933-41
  • World War II inflation, September 1939-August 1948
  • Revival of monetary policy, 1948-60
  • The postwar rise of velocity
  • A summing up. rc.

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