FEDERAL RESERVE BULLETIN -JANUARY 1957.
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Page : 790 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 1957
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Page : 790 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Allan H. Meltzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226519988
Allan H. Meltzer's monumental history of the Federal Reserve System tells the story of one of America's most influential but least understood public institutions. This first volume covers the period from the Federal Reserve's founding in 1913 through the Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord of 1951, which marked the beginning of a larger and greatly changed institution. To understand why the Federal Reserve acted as it did at key points in its history, Meltzer draws on meeting minutes, correspondence, and other internal documents (many made public only during the 1970s) to trace the reasoning behind its policy decisions. He explains, for instance, why the Federal Reserve remained passive throughout most of the economic decline that led to the Great Depression, and how the Board's actions helped to produce the deep recession of 1937 and 1938. He also highlights the impact on the institution of individuals such as Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the 1920s, who played a key role in the adoption of a more active monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Meltzer also examines the influence the Federal Reserve has had on international affairs, from attempts to build a new international financial system in the 1920s to the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 that established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the failure of the London Economic Conference of 1933. Written by one of the world's leading economists, this magisterial biography of the Federal Reserve and the people who helped shape it will interest economists, central bankers, historians, political scientists, policymakers, and anyone seeking a deep understanding of the institution that controls America's purse strings. "It was 'an unprecedented orgy of extravagance, a mania for speculation, overextended business in nearly all lines and in every section of the country.' An Alan Greenspan rumination about the irrational exuberance of the late 1990s? Try the 1920 annual report of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve. . . . To understand why the Fed acted as it did—at these critical moments and many others—would require years of study, poring over letters, the minutes of meetings and internal Fed documents. Such a task would naturally deter most scholars of economic history but not, thank goodness, Allan Meltzer."—Wall Street Journal "A seminal work that anyone interested in the inner workings of the U. S. central bank should read. A work that scholars will mine for years to come."—John M. Berry, Washington Post "An exceptionally clear story about why, as the ideas that actually informed policy evolved, things sometimes went well and sometimes went badly. . . . One can only hope that we do not have to wait too long for the second installment."—David Laidler, Journal of Economic Literature "A thorough narrative history of a high order. Meltzer's analysis is persuasive and acute. His work will stand for a generation as the benchmark history of the world's most powerful economic institution. It is an impressive, even awe-inspiring achievement."—Sir Howard Davies, Times Higher Education Supplement
Author : John T. E. Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0195101006
This title compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory. This is one of the most important notions to have informed cognitive psychology over the last 20 years or so, and yet it has been used in a wide variety of ways. This is partly because contemporary usage of the phrase `working memory' encapsulates various themes that have appeared at different points in the history of research into human memory and cognition. This book presents three dominant views of working memory.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1957-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1616351691
This paper reviews key findings of the IMF’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1957. The report highlights that boom conditions continued throughout 1956, sustained by an undercurrent of private business investment sufficiently strong to compensate for such weaknesses as appeared in some individual sectors. Any apprehensions, which might have been entertained in the early months of the year that the upward trend of business was soon to be reversed, were thus shown to be without foundation.
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Banks and banking
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Author : BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
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Page : 804 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Federal Reserve banks
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Marketing
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Crops and climate
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