From New Deal Banking Reform to World War II Inflation (Princeton Legacy Library, 67) - Hardcover

Friedman, Milton; Schwartz, Anna Jacobson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691643032 ISBN 13: 9780691643038

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This selection from the authors' A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Princeton) describes the changes that were made in the banking structure and in the monetary standard following the great contraction of 1929 to 1933, the establishment of monetary policies after the New Deal period, and the development of inflation during World War II.

Originally published in 1980.

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About this title

About the Author:

"Milton Friedman" is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Before that, he was Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and Cambridge University. Among his many books are "Essays in Positive Economics, A Program for Monetary Stability, Capitalism and Freedom, A Monetary History of the United States", and "The Optimum Quantity of Money".

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691643032
• ISBN 13: 9780691643038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184