| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 860 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
National Bureau of Economic Research. Studies in business cycles ; 12 |
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Studies in business cycles ; no. 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small ... monumental, above all, in the theoretical and statistical effort and ingenuity that have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issu |
| Other author |
Schwartz, Anna J. (Anna Jacobson), 1915-2012, author.
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| Subject |
Money -- United States -- History.
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Currency question -- United States -- History.
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Monetary policy -- United States -- History.
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History |
| ISBN |
9781400829330 (electronic bk.) |
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140082933X (electronic bk.) |
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0691003548 |
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9780691003542 |
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0691041474 |
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9780691041476 |
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