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Economist in an uncertain world : Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 / Wyatt C. Wells.
LIBRA HG2563 .W363 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Wyatt C.
- Series:
- Columbia studies in contemporary American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)--History.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Burns, Arthur F. (Arthur Frank), 1904-1987.
- Burns, Arthur F.
- Economists--United States--Biography.
- Economists.
- History.
- United States.
- Monetary policy--United States--History.
- Monetary policy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Arthur F. Burns presided as Chairman of the powerful Federal Reserve Board through most of the 1970s, during the demise of the long postwar economic boom. In Economist in an Uncertain World, Wyatt C. Wells explains in vivid detail how Burns's handling of the financial crisis in that period influenced America's future economic development.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 023108496X
- OCLC:
- 30079229
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