Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923 / Robert Craig West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Robert Craig, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking--United States--History.

Banks and banking.

Federal Reserve banks--History.

Federal Reserve banks.

General Economics.

Local Subjects:

General Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Offering new perspectives on the early years of the Federal Reserve system, this book evaluates the banking reform movement and its results. Professor West analyzes the system's first decade in the context of the thought of the period and of what preceded the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Neither the Act itself nor the actions of the system it created, he maintains, can be understood without knowledge of the banking reform attempts. In this clearly written account of the American central bank, the author demonstrates the relationship between the evolution of monetary ideas and the evolution of an organizational structure. His book will be of great value to students and scholars of economic history, money and banking, institutional economics, and American history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Charts

Preface

CHAPTER 1. American Banking, 1836-1908

CHAPTER 2. Reform Proposals, 1863-1908

CHAPTER 3. Paul M. Warburg and Victor Morawetz

CHAPTER 4. The Aldrich Bill

CHAPTER 5. The Development of the Glass Bill

CHAPTER 6. The Federal Reserve Act in Congress

CHAPTER 7. The Theoretical Background of the Federal Reserve Act

CHAPTER 8. Economic Mythmaking and the Federal Reserve Act

CHAPTER 9. The Development of Federal Reserve Theory, 1914-1923

CHAPTER 10. The Structure of the Federal Reserve

CHAPTER 11. Epilogue: The Reform Movement in Retrospect

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

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ISBN:

9781501743849

1501743848

OCLC:

1129164233