Friedman / Schwartz A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2933-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 888 Seiten

Reihe: National Bureau of Economic Research Publications

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Milton

Schwartz, Anna Jacobson

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Tables, pg. xiii
Charts, pg. xv
Preface, pg. xxi
CHAPTER 1. Introduction, pg. 1
CHAPTER 2. The Greenback Period, pg. 15
CHAPTER 3. Silver Politics and the Secular Decline in Prices, 1879-97, pg. 89
CHAPTER 4. Gold Inflation and Banking Reform, 1897-1914, pg. 135
CHAPTER 5. Early Years of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-21, pg. 189
CHAPTER 6. The High Tide of the Reserve System, 1921-29, pg. 240
CHAPTER 7. The Great Contraction, 1929-33, pg. 299
CHAPTER 8. New Deal Changes in the Banking Structure and Monetary Standard, pg. 420
CHAPTER 9. Cyclical Changes, 1933-41, pg. 493
CHAPTER 10. World War II Inflation, September 1939-August 1948, pg. 546
CHAPTER 11. Revival of Monetary Policy, 1948-60, pg. 592
CHAPTER 12. The Postwar Rise in Velocity, pg. 639
CHAPTER 13. A Summing Up, pg. 676
APPENDIX A. Basic Tables, pg. 703
APPENDIX B. Proximate Determinants of the Nominal Stock of Money, pg. 776
Director's Comment, pg. 809
Author Index, pg. 815
Subject Index, pg. 819

Über Autor(innen)

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and had previously taught at the University of Chicago, from 1946 to 1976. He was also a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981. Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1915–2012) was a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which she joined in 1941. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During her distinguished career, she has made major contributions to the economics of business cycles, banking, monetary policy, and financial regulation.