A history of the Federal Reserve. Volume II, Book One, 1951-1969 / Allan H. Meltzer ; with a foreword by Alan Greenspan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meltzer, Allan H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

Federal Reserve banks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (695 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Summary:

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the institution's founding in 1913 to the restoration of its independence in 1951. This two-part second volume of the history chronicles the evolution and development of this institution from the Treasury-Federal Reserve accord in 1951 to the mid-1980s, when the great inflation ended. It reveals the inner workin

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. A New Beginning, 1951-60; 3. The Early Keynesian Era: A Low-Inflation Interlude, 1961-65; 4. The Great Inflation: Phase I

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612505928

9781282505926

1282505920

9780226519852

0226519856

OCLC:

609859530