March 11, 1935
- Bank of Canada opens.
July 1, 1943
- ''Pay-as-you-go'' income tax withholding began.
July 1, 1944
- Bretton Woods Conference started; established IMF and World Bank;
July 22, 1944
- Close of the three-week, forty-four nation, Bretton Woods conference.
Delegates voted to create both the World Bank (devised to dole out
international loans, received good chunks of its fiscal resources from
the United States) and International Monetary Fund (IMF - charged with
stabilizing exchange rates and enforcing the dollar-centric currency
standard), institutions which, in the minds of some historians, sealed
America's role as the leader of the post-war economic order.
February 14, 1946
- Bank of England nationalized after Second World War; remained the
Treasury's adviser, agent and debt manager;
March 1, 1946
- British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years.
March 1, 1947
- International Monetary Fund begins operation.
April 16, 1948
- Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris.
March 25, 1957
- France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
signed a treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community
(EEC), also known as the Common Market.
January 1, 1958
- Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into
effect.
May 9, 1966
- Andrew F. Brimmer appointed first black member of Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System.
April 1, 1971
- United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership.
April 1, 1973
- Japan allows its citizens to own gold.
March 13, 1979
- European Monetary System is established, ECU created.
April 3, 1986
- U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000.
June 2, 1987
- President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan
Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board.
April 27, 1992
- Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won
entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
November 1, 1993
- Maastricht Treaty on European Union (ratified by 12 nations) comes
into effect, formally establishing the European Union (EU); called for a
strengthened European parliament, creation of a central European bank,
common foreign and security policies (on crime, terrorism, immigration
issues; laid groundwork for the establishment of a single European
currency, to be known as the "euro."
June 1997
- Bank of England made independent of Government control.
August 17, 1998
- Russia devalued the ruble.
February 4, 2000
- The Senate voted 89-4 to confirm Alan Greenspan for a fourth term as
chairman of the Federal Reserve.
October 24, 2005
- President George W. Bush nominated Ben S. Bernanke (Princeton University
economist, government's chief economic advisor after being elected
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in June 2005) as the new
head of the US Federal Reserve (14th chairman of the Fed); leading
advocate of "inflation targeting", an approach widely adopted in Europe
in which central banks set a target for inflation and stick to it.
January 22, 2008 - Fed's
benchmark rate
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/22/business/0123-biz-FED.gif)
January 31, 2006
- Alan Greenspan retired; Senate approved Ben Bernanke as chairman of
the Federal Reserve.
June 2008 - Evolution of Producer
Prices - 12-month increase (ended May 2008) rose to 7.2% (smaller than
7.8% increase reported in year through January 2008, highest overall
producer price inflation rate since 1981); producer prices of grains
rose 64.8%, producer price for livestock up 1.5%; 45% of American
CFOs said their companies had raised prices to offset higher energy
costs (source: Duke University/CFO Magazine poll);
expect to raise prices by 4.1% over next 12 months (2x rate forecast in
September 2007);
(Source: Bureau of labor Statistics,
via Haver Analytics;
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/21/business/0621-biz-webCHARTS.jpg)
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The Origins
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(Banque de France), Tristan Gaston-Breton; préface de Jean-Claude
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No Man's Man: A Biographical Memoir of Joseph Brennan, Civil Servant &
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(Deutsche Bundesbank), Ellen Kennedy (1991).
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(Deutsche Bundesbank), David Marsh (1992).
The Most Powerful Bank:
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Deutsche Bundesbank; Banks and banking, Central--Germany.
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Fifty Years of
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(Deutsche Bundesbank), edited by Jakob de Haan (2000).
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(Deutsche Bundesbank), Jeremy Leaman (2001).
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(European Coal and Steel Community), John Gillingham (1991).
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Alan Shrugged: The Life and
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(FRB - Greenspan), Peter Hartcher (2006).
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Greenspan, Alan, 1926- ; Speculation--United States--History--20th
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New world (global capitalist economy vastly more
flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, fast-changing than 20 years
ago), how we got here, what we're living through, what's over horizon,
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(FRB - Greenspan), Robert D. Auerbach (2008).
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Greenspan, Alan, 1926-; Gonzalez, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000;
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Governmental
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Major instances of Fed
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Timeline of devastating mistakes: stock market crash of 1987,
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bubble of 2000, feared Y2K disaster, credit bubble and real estate
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Volcker, Portrait of the
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Paul Volcker: The
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the National Bank of Fiji. (Suva, Fiji: University of South Pacific
Book Centre, 183 p.). National Bank of Fiji; Banks and banking,
Central--Fiji; Bank failures--Fiji.
(Reserve Bank of India), S. L. N. Simha (1970).
History of the Reserve Bank of India, 1935-51: Volume 1.
(Bombay, India: Reserve Bank of India, 878 p.). Reserve Bank of
India--History.
(Reserve Bank of India), S. L. N. Simha (1975). All the Bank’s
Men: Management of the Reserve Bank of India. (Madras, India:
Institute for Financial Management and Research, 140 p.). Reserve Bank
of India--History; Bank management--India--History.
(Reserve Bank of India), E.P.W. da Costa (1985). Reserve Bank of
India: Fifty Years, 1935-85. (Bombay, India: Reserve Bank of India,
161 p.). Reserve Bank of India--History.
(Reserve Bank of India), G. Balachandran (1998).
The Reserve Bank of India, 1951-1967: Volume 2. (Mumbai :
Reserve Bank of India: Mumbai : Reserve Bank of India, 1,190 p.).
Reserve Bank of India--History; Banks and banking,
Central--India--History.
(Reserve Bank of India), The Bank (2005). The Reserve Bank of
India, 1967-1981: Volume 3. (Mumbai, India: Central Office, Reserve
Bank of India, 1,197 p.). Reserve Bank of India--History; Banks and
banking, Central--India--History; Banks and banking,
Central--India--Archival resources. "The first volume of the bank’s
history, published in 1970, covered the ... era of 1935-51; the second
volume, published in 1998, covering the period upto 1967, focused upon
... public policy and institution-building; the period of 1967-81 [is]
covered by the present third volume".
(Reserve Bank of New Zealand), John Singleton with Arthur Grimes,
Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes (2006).
Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973 -2002.
(Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press, 352 p.). Reserve Bank of New
Zealand. Senior Member of the School of Economics and Finance (Victoria
University of Wellington); Senior Research Associate at Motu Economic &
Public Policy Research, Adjunct Professor of Economics (University of
Waikato), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of New
Zealand; Professor of Economic History, Head of the School of Government
(Victoria University of Wellington); Former Director of the National
Bank of New Zealand and of Lloyds Bank NZA.
How small central bank took opportunities
created by the political changes of 1980s to design unique institutional
policy framework, rather than merely adapt an off-the-shelf overseas
package.
(State Bank of India), Amiya Kumar Bagchi (1987-2003).
The Evolution of the State Bank of India, The Roots, 1806-1876.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 3 Vols.). State Bank of India;
State Bank of India--History; Finance--India--History; India--Economic
conditions. Contents: [1], pt. 1. The Early Years, 1806-1860. pt. 2.
Diversity and Regrouping, 1860-1876 -- v. 3 The Era of the Imperial Bank
of India, 1921-1955.
Eds. Anthony B. Atkinson and Thomas Piketty (2007).
Top Incomes Over the Twentieth Century: A Contrast Between Continental
European and English-Speaking Countries. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 585 p.). Warden of Nuffield College (Oxford);
Professor of Economics at PSE and EHESS (Paris). Income
distribution--History--20th century.
Studies from 10 OECD countries
of top segment of income distribution; dramatic changes have occurred at top of income scale throughout 20th century;
why top incomes shares fell markedly in first half of 20th century, why, more recently, there has been striking difference in
top income distribution between continental Europe and English-speaking
OECD countries, like the UK, USA, and Australia.
Andrew Baker (2005).
The Group of Seven: Finance Ministries, Central Banks and Global
Financial Governance. (New York, NY: Routledge, 295 p.). Group
of Seven (Organization); International finance; Monetary policy--Group
of Seven countries--International cooperation; Banks and banking,
Central--Group of Seven countries.
Study of the
collaboration between G7 finance ministries and central banks over the
last decade.
Harold Barger (1964). The Management of Money; A Survey of
American Experience. (Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 422 p.). Monetary
policy -- United States; Federal Reserve banks.
Peter Bernholz (2003).
Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History,
Economic and Political Relationships. (Northampton, MA: E. Elgar,
210 p.). Inflation (Finance)--History; Monetary policy--History;
Economic stabilization.
Michael A. Bernstein (2001).
A Perilous Progress: Economists and
Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America. (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, p.). Council of Economic Advisers
(U.S.)--History; Economists--United States--History--20th century;
Economics--United States--History--20th century; United States--Economic
policy--20th century.
Albert Sidney Bolles (1891). The Financial History of the United
States, from 1789 to 1860 (New York, NY: D. Appleton, 621 p.).
Finance--History.
Roger Bootle (1996).
The Death of Inflation: Surviving and Thriving in the Zero Era.
(Sonoma, CA: Nicholas Brealey Pub. Chief Economist of Hongkong &
Shanghai Banking Corp. Inflation (Finance); Cost and standard of
living; Interest rates; Finance, Personal.
--- (2004).
Money for Nothing: Real Wealth, Financial Fantasies, and the Economy
of the Future. (Yarmouth, ME: Nicholas Brealey Pub., 380 p.).
Chief Economist of Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Economic
forecasting--United States; Business cycles--United States; Deflation
(Finance)--United States; Money--United States; United
States--Economic policy--2001-; United States--Economic
conditions--2001-.
eds. Michael D. Bordo, Roberto Cortés-Conde (2001).
Transferring
Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal
Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Century. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 482 p.). Rutgers University, Universidad
de San Andres. Economic history; Fiscal policy--Europe--History;
Monetary policy--Europe--History; International economic
relations--History; Europe--Economic conditions.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson (2008).
Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget
Crisis. (New York, NY: Collins, 336 p.). Executive Editor of
Public Agenda Online; Executive Vice President of Public Agenda.
Budget deficits--United States; Public welfare--United
States--Finance; Budget--United States; United States--Appropriations
and expenditures. Guide to deciphering jargon of
U. S. budget problem - from $9 trillion and growing debt to fact that
government has spent more on programs,
services than it has collected in taxes for 31/35 years; why elected
leader have failed to effectively address this issue,
what to do to protect the future.
Anthony S. Campagna (1987).
U.S. National Economic Policy,
1917-1985. (New York, NY: Praeger, 642 p.). United States --
Economic policy.
Maxwell A. Cameron and Brian W. Tomlin (2000).
The Making of
Nafta: How the Deal Was Done (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 264 p.). Canada. Treaties, etc. 1992 Oct. 7 --History; Free
trade--North America; Free trade--United States; Free trade--Canada;
Free trade--Mexico; North America--Commercial treaties--History.
W. Stansbury Carnes and Stephen D. Slifer (1991).
The Atlas of
Economic Indicators: A Visual Guide to Market Forces and the Federal
Reserve (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 232 p.). Senior Economist
and chief financial market economist for Shearson Lehman Brothers.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Economic
indicators.
Filippo Cesarano (2006).
Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International
Monetary Order. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 256
p.). Head of the Historical Research Office of the Bank of Italy. United
Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.)--History;
International finance--History; Monetary policy--History.
Bretton Woods system suffered from latent
inconsistencies which fatally undermined the foundations of the postwar
monetary architecture, brought about epochal transition from commodity
money to fiat money.
ed. David C. Colander and Dewey Daane with a foreword by William E.
Simon; Richard V. Adams ... [et al] (1994).
The Art of Monetary
Policy. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 216 p.). Monetary policy -- United
States; Monetary policy.
Robert A. Degen (1987).
The American Monetary System: A Concise
Survey of Its Evolution Since 1896. (Lexington, MA: Lexington
Books, 242 p.). Money--United States--History; Monetary policy--United
States--History; Banks and banking--United States--History.
Davis Rich Dewey (1968). Financial History of the United States
(New York, NY: A.M. Kelley, 600 p.). Finance, Public--History;
Finance, Public--Bibliography; Tariff--History.
Armand van Dormael (1978).
Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary
System. (New York, NY: Holmes & Meier, 322 p.). United Nations
Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.)--History;
International finance--History.
Barry Eichengreen (1996).
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 223 p.). John L. Simpson
Professor of Economics and Political Science (University of California,
Berkeley). International finance--History; Gold standard--History.
--- (2006).
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods. (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 187 p.). George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor
of Economics and Political Science (University of California, Berkeley).
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods,
N.H.); International finance.
Two most
salient differences between Bretton Woods System (1958-1973) and now: 1) twin deficits,
2) low savings rate do not augur well for
sustainability of U. S. international position; current constellation of
exchange rates, payments imbalances unlikely to last as long as original Bretton Woods System.
Anthony M. Endres (2005).
Great Architects of International Finance: The Bretton Woods Era.
(New York, NY: Routledge, 257 p.). United Nations Monetary and Financial
Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.); International
finance--History--20th century; Monetary reformers.
Gerald D. Feldman (1993).
The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German
Inflation, 1914-1924. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
1,011 p.). Institute of European Studies (University of California,
Berkeley). Inflation (Finance)--Germany--History--20th century; Monetary
policy--Germany--History--20th century; Economic stabilization--Germany;
Germany--Economic policy--1918-1933; Germany--Economic
conditions--1918-1945. Most famous, spectacular
instance of inflation in modern industrial society (Germany during,
following World War I). Author studies inflation as a strategy of social
pacification, economic reconstruction, mechanism for escaping domestic,
international indebtedness; studies German society under tension of
inflation and hyperinflation; explores ways in which Germany's
hyperinflation, stabilization were linked to Great Depression, rise of
National Socialism; sets German inflation within broader issues of
maintaining economic stability, social peace, democracy.
Edited and with an Introductory Essay by Martin Feldstein (1994).
American Economic Policy in the 1980s. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 823 p.). United States--Economic policy--1981-1993.
Eds. Robert M. Fishman and Anthony M. Messina (2006).
The Year
of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political import of Europe’s
Common Currency. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,
328 p.). professor of sociology and a fellow of the Kellogg Institute
for International Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European
Studies (University of Notre Dame); associate professor of political
science and a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International
Studies and Nanovic Institute for European Studies (University of
Notre Dame). Euro--Social aspects--Congresses; Euro--Political
aspects--Congresses. Whether new common currency
will reshape Europe's cultures, societies, political systems and, if
so, in what ways.
Marc Flandreau; translated by Owen Leeming; revised and enlarged by
the author (2004).
The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the
International Gold Standard, 1848-1873. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 319 p.). Professor of International Economic Relations
(Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). Bimetallism--History--19th
century; Bimetallism--France--History--19th century; International
finance--History--19th century; International liquidity--History--19th
century; Currency convertibility--History--19th century; Gold
standard--History--19th century; Monetary policy--France--History--19th
century.
Robert P. Flood and Peter M. Garber (1994).
Speculative Bubbles,
Speculative Attacks, and Policy Switching. (Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 493 p.). Monetary policy--United States; Foreign exchange
rates--United States; Speculation--United States.
eds. Jeffrey Frankel, Peter Orszag (2002).
American Economic
Policy in the 1990s. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1119 p.). Kennedy
School of Government, Brookings Institution, respectively. United
States--Economic policy--1993-2001; United States--Economic
conditions--1981-2001.
Milton Friedman (1992).
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History. (New York, NY:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 274 p.). Monetary policy--History; Monetary
policy--United States--History; Money--History.
Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1963).
A Monetary
History of the United States, 1867-1960. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 860 p.). Money--United States--History; Currency
question--United States--History; Monetary policy--United
States-- History. Massive historical data, sharp
analytics support claim that monetary policy--steady control of the
money supply--matters profoundly in management of nation's economy,
especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations.
James K. Galbraith (2000).
Created Unequal: The Crisis in American
Pay. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, [orig. pub. 1998]).
Liberal Economist (son of John Galbraith). Wages--United States; Income
distribution--United States; Labor market--United States; Social
conflict--United States; United States--Economic policy--1981-1993;
United States--Economic policy--1993-2001. Issue of the day - monetary
policy and its impact on economic growth and income around the world.
John Gillingham (2006).
Design for a New Europe. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 298 p.). Professor of History (University of Missouri, St.
Louis). European Union; Europe--Politics and government--1945-.
European Union after the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty.
Author maps out a route to save the Union.
Charles A.E. Goodhart (1988).
The Evolution of Central Banks.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 205 p.). Banks and banking,
Central--History; Banks and banking, Central; Free banking.
Peter Hartcher (1998).
The Ministry: How Japan's Most Powerful Institution Endangers World
Markets. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 310 p.).
Political Editor (Sydney Morning Herald), Former Asia-Pacific Editor
(The Australian Financial Review). Japan. O¯kurasho¯; Finance,
Public--Japan; Japan--Economic policy--1945-. IRS, SEC, FED, U.S. Treasury - in one agency; most powerful and the least
scrutinized ministry in Japan.
Thomas Havrilesky (1995).
The Pressures on American Monetary
Policy. (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 381 p. [2nd
ed.]). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.);
Monetary policy--United States.
Robert Heilbroner and Peter Bernstein (1989).
The Debt and the
Deficit: False Alarms/Real Possibilities. (New York, NY: Norton,
144 p.). Debts, Public--United States; Budget deficits--United States.
Eds. Michael M. Hutchison and Frank Westermann (2006).
Japan’s Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for
Advanced Economies. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 290 p.).
Professor of Economics (University of California, Santa Cruz); Chair
for International Economic Policy in the Department of Economics and
Business Administration (University of Osnabrueck, Germany).
Recessions--Japan; Monetary policy--Japan; Finance--Japan;
Japan--Economic policy--20th century; Japan--Economic conditions--20th
century. Importance of a sound financial sector in fostering robust
growth and healthy economies--and the enormous economic costs of a
dysfunctional financial system.
Karl Kaltenthaler (2006).
Policy-Making in the European Central Bank: The Masters of Europe’s
Money. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 208 p.). European
Central Bank; Monetary policy--European Union countries.
ECB decision-makers have created model that attempts to replicate Bundesbank's
success at European level and to lend credibility to their own
policies.
Paul Krugman (1997).
The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S.
Economic Policy in the 1990s (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 232 p.
[3rd ed.]). Economic forecasting--United States; United
States--Economic policy--1981-.
Diane B. Kunz (1987).
The Battle for Britain’s Gold Standard in 1931. (New York, NY:
Croom Helm, 207 p.). Monetary policy--Great Britain--History; Gold
standard--History.
David Kynaston (1980).
The Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Lavenham,
UK: T. Dalton, 160 p.). Great Britain. Treasury--History.
Susan Lee (1996).
Hands Off: Why the Government Is a Menace to
Economic Health. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 252 p.). United
States--Economic policy--1993-2001; United States--Economic
policy--1981-1993; United States--Economic policy.
Nathan Lewis (2007).
Gold: The Once and Future Money. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 447 p.).
Formerly the Chief International Economist at Polyconomics, Inc.
Monetary policy; Business cycles; Gold standard.
Case for worldwide
return to gold standard; gold has been adopted
as money because it works; gold standard produced decades,
centuries of stable money and economic abundance.
Matt Marshall (1999). The Bank: The Birth of Europe's Central
Bank and the Rebirth of Europe's Power (London, UK: Random House
Business Books, 434 p.). Bonn Correspondent for the Wall Street
Journal Europe. European Central Bank; Europe--Economic
integration.
Thomas Mayer (1999).
Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in
the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of
Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-1979. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar,
151 p.). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.);
Monetary policy--United States--History; Inflation (Finance)--United
States--History; United States--Economic policy--1961-1971; United
States--Economic policy--1971-1981.
Mark Metzler (2006).
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of
Liberalism in Prewar Japan. (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 370 p.). Assistant Professor of History and Asian
Studies (University of Texas, Austin). Inoue, Junnosuke, 1869-1932;
Takahashi, Korekiyo, 1854-1936; Money--Japan--History; Currency
question--Japan--History; Gold standard--History; Monetary
policy--Japan--History; Liberalism--Japan--History.
Complex dynamics of money, empire, and global
hegemony.
Laurence H. Meyer (2004).
A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View.
(New York, NY: HarperCollins, 288 p.). Federal Reserve Board (1996 -
2002). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); United
States. Federal Open Market Committee; Federal Reserve banks; Monetary
policy--United States.
Iwan W. Morgan (1995).
Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America.
(Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 212 p.). Principal Politics and Modern
History Lecturer (London Guildhall University). Budget
deficits--United States; Government spending policy--United States;
Fiscal policy--United States. entury of success."
Irwin L. Morris (2000).
Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve: The Politics of
American Monetary Policy-Making. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 165 p.). Assistant Professor of Political Science
(University of Maryland). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (U.S.); Monetary policy--United States.
Peter G. Peterson; foreword by Warren B. Rudman and Paul E. Tsongas
(1993).
Facing Up: How To Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and
Restore the American Dream. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 411
p.). Debts, Public--United States; United States--Economic
policy--1981-1993; United States--Economic conditions--1981-.
Robert Rubin with Jacob Weisberg (2003).
Dealing with an Uncertain
World: Making Decisions on Wall Street and in Washington. (New York,
NY: Random House, 427 p.). Rubin, Robert Edward, 1938- ; United States.
Dept. of the Treasury--Officials and employees--Biography; Finance
ministers--United States--Biography; Fiscal policy--United States;
United States--Economic policy--1993-2001.
Jonathan A. Rodden (2005).
Hamilton’s Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 313 p.). Ford Career
Development Associate Professor of Political Science (MIT).
Intergovernmental fiscal relations; Central-local government relations;
Revenue sharing. Why different countries have had
dramatically different experiences with sub-national fiscal discipline.
James D. Savage (1988).
Balanced Budgets & American Politics.
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 350 p.). Budget--United
States--History; Budget deficits--United States--History; Deficit
financing--United States--History; United States--Politics and
government.
James D. Savage (2005).
Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the
Enforcement of Maastricht. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 239 p.). Economic and Monetary Union; Treaty on European Union
(1992); European Union countries--Economic integration.
Karl Schriftgiesser (1960). Business Comes of Age; The Story of
the Committee for Economic Development and Its Impact Upon the
Economic Policies of the United States, 1942-1960. (New York, NY:
Harper, 248 p.). Committee for Economic Development.
Bernard Shull (2005).
The Fourth Branch: The Federal Reserve's Unlikely Rise to Power and
Influence. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 272 p.).
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics (Hunter College).
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)--History;
United States--Economic policy--20th century.
Pierre L. Siklos (2002).
The Changing Face of Central Banking :
Evolutionary Trends Since World War II. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 347 p.). Professor (Wilfrid Laurier University).
Banks and banking, Central--History; Monetary policy--History.
Robert Solomon (1982).
The International Monetary System, 1945-1981. (New York, NY:
Harper & Row, 432 p. [updated and expanded ed.]). Former Chief
International Economist for the Federal Reserve Board. International
finance.
--- (1999).
Money on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance Since 1980.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 210 p.). Former Chief
International Economist for the Federal Reserve Board. International
finance.
Steven Solomon (1995).
The Confidence Game: How Unelected
Central Bankers Are Governing the Changed Global Economy. (New
York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 606 p.). Banks and banking, Central; Money
supply; International finance; Bankers; Government executives.
Roger W. Spencer, John H. Huston (2006).
The Federal Reserve and the Bull Markets: From Benjamin Strong to Alan
Greenspan. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 251 p.). United
States. Federal Reserve Board; Bull markets--United States; Stock
exchanges--United States. Relationship of Federal Reserve policy to
stock market activity; monetary policy responses of
Benjamin Strong, William McChesney Martin Jr., Alan Greenspan to
three major bull markets that occurred during their respective
tenures.
Beryl W. Sprinkel (1964).
Money and Stock Prices. (Homewood,
IL: R.D. Irwin, 201 p.). Stocks; Monetary policy; Liquidity (Economics).
--- (1971).
Money and Markets; A Monetarist View. (Homewood,
IL: R.D. Irwin, 305 p.). Money; Business cycles.
Donald R. Stabile and Jeffrey A. Cantor (1991).
The Public Debt
of the United States: An Historical Perspective, 1775-1990 (New
York, NY: Praeger, 243 p.). Debts, Public--United States--History.
--- (1998).
The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates Over Money, Debt, and
Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 208 p.). Professor of the College at St. Mary's
College of Maryland. Finance, Public--United States--History--18th
century; Finance, Public--United States--History--19th century.
Benn Steil and Robert E. Litan (2006).
Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American
Foreign Policy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 208
p.). Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign
Relations; Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman
Foundation and Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the
Brookings Institution. Financial institutions--United States; Capital
movements--Government policy--United States; International finance;
International relations; United States--Foreign relations.
From trade in goods and services to purchase and
sale of financial assets across borders. From power over imports and
exports to influence the behavior of other countries to power to
influence international capital flows.
Herbert Stein (1969).
The Fiscal Revolution in America.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 526 p.). Served on Nixon's
Council of Economic Advisers (1969-72), Chairman of CEA until 1974;
Professor of Economics (University of Virginia), American Enterprise
Institute (conservative research organization). Fiscal Policy,
Monetary Policy.
--- (1989).
Governing the $5 Trillion Economy. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 145 p.). Fiscal Policy, Budget.
Paul Krooss Studenski, Herman Edward (1963).
Financial History
of the United States: Fiscal, Monetary, Banking, and Tariff, Including
Financial Administration and State and Local Finance (New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill, 605 p.). Finance--History.
Peter Temin (1976).
Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great
Depression? (New York, NY: Norton, 201 p.).
Depressions--1929--United States; Money supply--United States;
Monetary policy--United States.
Richard H. Timberlake (1978).
The Origins of Central Banking in
the United States. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 272
p.). Monetary policy--United States--History; Banks and banking,
Central--United States--History.
--- (1993).
Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual
and Institutional History. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 502 p.). Monetary policy--United States--History.
Richard von Glahn (1996).
Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 338 p.). Professor of
History (University of California, Los Angeles). Money -- China --
History; Monetary policy -- China -- History.
Kenneth Weiher (1992).
America's Search for Economic Stability:
Monetary and Fiscal Policy since 1913 (New York, NY: Twayne
Publishers, 241 p.). Monetary policy--United States--History--20th
century; Fiscal policy--United States--History--20th century.
Steven R. Weisman (2002).
The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson
- The Fierce Battles Over Money and Power that Transformed the Nation.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 419 p.). Editorial Writer (New York
Times). Income tax--United States--History; Taxation--United
States--History.
Richard Werner (2003).
Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers
and the Transformation of the Economy. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe,
362 p.). Banks and banking, Central--Japan; Monetary policy--Japan;
Japan--Economic policy--1945-.
David C. Wheelock (1991).
The Strategy and Consistency of Federal
Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924-1933. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 126 p.). Assistant Vice President and Economist,
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System (U.S.); Federal Reserve banks; Monetary policy--United
States--History--20th century.
Ted Wilson (2000).
Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the
Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century.
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 200 p.). Gold standard--History;
Bimetallism--History.
John H. Wood (2005).
A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 439 p.). R. J. Reynolds
Professor of Economics (Wake Forest University). Bank of
England--History; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(U.S.)--History; Banks and banking, Central--Great Britain--History;
Monetary policy--Great Britain--History; Banks and banking,
Central--United States--History; Monetary policy--United
States--History. Monetary changes in the
lives of these British and American institutions.
David Woodruff (1999).
Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism.
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 228 p.). Monetary
policy--Russia (Federation); Barter--Russia (Federation); Financial
crises--Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation)--Economic
conditions--1991-.
Robert E. Wright (2002).
The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in
American Financial Markets, 1780-1850. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 240 p.). Finance--United States--History;
Wealth--United States--History; United States--Economic policy; United
States--Economic conditions.
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