Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923

Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923
Author: Robert Craig West
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501743848

Offering new perspectives on the early years of the Federal Reserve system, this book evaluates the banking reform movement and its results. Professor West analyzes the system's first decade in the context of the thought of the period and of what preceded the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Neither the Act itself nor the actions of the system it created, he maintains, can be understood without knowledge of the banking reform attempts. In this clearly written account of the American central bank, the author demonstrates the relationship between the evolution of monetary ideas and the evolution of an organizational structure. His book will be of great value to students and scholars of economic history, money and banking, institutional economics, and American history.

The Great Debate on Banking Reform

The Great Debate on Banking Reform
Author: Elmus Wicker
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814210007

"Eminent historian of economics Elmus Wicker examines the events which spurred a series of banking panics beginning in 1893-94, that led to the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank twenty years later. A serious lacuna exists in the literature on the origins of the Federal Reserve System. What is absent is a fair appraisal of the role Senator Nelson Aldrich, prominent Rhode Island senator, played. Carter Glass captured the acclaim while asserting that Aldrich be granted equal billing with Glass as "fathers" of the Federal Reserve System."--BOOK JACKET.

The Case for Gold

The Case for Gold
Author: Ron Paul
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 341
Release: 1982
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0932790313

The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve

The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve
Author: Michael D. Bordo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107013720

Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

Mystery of Banking, The

Mystery of Banking, The
Author: Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2008
Genre: Banks and banking
ISBN: 1610163842

The Secrets of the Federal Reserve -- The London Connection

The Secrets of the Federal Reserve -- The London Connection
Author: Eustace Mullins
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0359087450

From the Foreword. In 1949, while I was visiting Ezra Pound who was a political prisoner at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C. (a Federal institution for the insane), Dr. Pound asked me if I had ever heard of the Federal Reserve System. I replied that I had not, as of the age of 25. He then showed me a ten dollar bill marked ""Federal Reserve Note"" and asked me if I would do some research at the Library of Congress on the Federal Reserve System which had issued this bill. Pound was unable to go to the Library himself, as he was being held without trial as a political prisoner by the United States government. After he was denied broadcasting time in the U.S., Dr. Pound broadcast from Italy in an effort to persuade people of the United States not to enter World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt had personally ordered Pound's indictment, spurred by the demands of his three personal assistants, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and Alger Hiss, all connected with Communist espionage.

The Wealth Effect

The Wealth Effect
Author: Jeffrey M. Chwieroth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107153743

Shows how the politics of banking crises has been transformed by the growing 'great expectations' among middle class voters that governments should protect their wealth.