The Federal Reserve : a new history /

"A new and critical history of one of America's most important institutions In The Federal Reserve System: A New History, Robert Hetzel draws on a 43-year career as an economist in the central bank to trace the influence of the Fed on the American economy. Hetzel compares period in which t...

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Main Author: Hetzel, Robert L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • In search of the monetary standard
  • The organization of the book
  • What causes the monetary disorder that produces real disorder?
  • The creation of the Fed
  • Why the Fed failed in the Depression: the 1920s antecedents
  • A fiat money standard: free reserves operating procedures and gold
  • A narrative account of the 1920s
  • Attacking speculative mania
  • The Great Contraction: 1929-33
  • The Roosevelt era
  • The guiding role of governor Harrison and the NY Fed
  • Contemporary critics in the Depression
  • From World War II to the 1953 Recession
  • LAW (Lean-against-the-Wind) and long and variable lags
  • The early Martin Fed
  • From price stability to inflation
  • The Burns Fed
  • Stop-go and the collapse of a stable nominal anchor
  • The Volcker Fed and the birth of a new monetary standard
  • The Greenspan FOMC
  • The Great Recession
  • The 2008 financial crisis
  • The Eurozone crisis
  • Recovery from the Great Recession
  • Covid-19 and the Fed's credit policy
  • Covid-19 and the Fed's monetary policy: flexible-average-inflation targeting
  • How can the Fed control inflation?
  • Making the monetary standard explicit
  • What is the optimal monetary standard?
  • Why is learning so hard?