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Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and shar
“Magisterial.... The direct and indirect influence of the Monetary History would be difficult to overstate.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal ReserveFrom Nobel Prize–winning economist Milto
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History of Political Economy. 36:217-239
This paper discusses monetarist objections to the IS-LM model. We explore the views of two principal spokesmen for monetarism: Milton Friedman and the team of Karl Brunner and Allan Meltzer. Friedman did not explicitly state the reasons he generally
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Explorations in Economic History. 39:1-28
The recent consensus view that the gold standard was the leading cause of the worldwide Great Depression 1929–1933 stems from the two propositions: (1) Under the gold standard, deflationary shocks were transmitted between countries and, (2) for mos
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Journal of International Money and Finance. 18:683-708
Recent events in Asia and other parts of the globe have prompted calls from many quarters for international rescue of the monetary or fiscal authorities in distressed countries. We contrast the experience of rescues of monetary authorities before 197
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Economic Inquiry. 33:484-505
I. INTRODUCTION Although over fifty years have elapsed since the onset of the Great Contraction, controversy still swirls about the factors responsible for its depth and long duration. A basic issue is the hypothesis due to Friedman and Schwartz [196
Foreign-exchange operations did not end after the United States stopped its activist approach to intervention. Japan persisted in such operations, but avoided overt conflict with its monetary policy. With the onset of the Great Recession, Switzerland
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w17984
https://doi.org/10.3386/w17984
By the early 1960s, outstanding U.S. dollar liabilities began to exceed the U.S. gold stock, suggesting that the United States could not completely maintain its pledge to convert dollars into gold at the official price. This raised uncertainty about
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w16946
https://doi.org/10.3386/w16946
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
The United States all but abandoned its foreign-exchange-market intervention operations in late 1995, when they proved corrosive to the credibility of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to price stability. We view this decision as the culmination of