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Imagining the Fed the struggle for the heart of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1970 /

Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Nicolas (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: State University of New York Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Imagining a Fed in the Making
  • The Argument: Mapping the Fed's Struggle for Power
  • Fed Governance Studies and the System's Vanishing Struggle for Power
  • The Struggle to Build a Durable Fed Regime
  • Ideology, Interests, and the Battle over the Gold Standard
  • Agency, Political Time, and Fed Reform Catalysts
  • Partisan Regime Origin and Collapse: Wellsprings of Populism and Progressivism
  • War and Peace: Founts of Hamiltonian State Building and Jeffersonian Repudiation
  • Ideas and Agents: The Struggle to Shape Fed Institutions in Secular Time
  • Impacts of Fed Development: Global Power, Political Time, and Legacies of Loss
  • 1 Escape from Jekyll Island: The Federal Reserve's Birth in Political Time
  • The Aldrich Plan as a Republican Hail Mary
  • Stuck in the Past: America's Premodern Financial Regime
  • Paul Warburg's Progressive Central Bank Idea
  • Nelson Aldrich: The Face of a Dying Republican Regime
  • The Federal Reserve Act's Construction by an Ascendant Democratic Coalition
  • Brokering a Partisan Reform Compromise
  • Democrats and Progressives Unite to Advance the Glass-Owen Bill
  • Partisan Enactment of the Federal Reserve Act
  • The Federal Reserve Act: An Invitation to Struggle
  • Organizing for Combat: The Federal Reserve Act's Critics as Fed Agents
  • Independent or Instrument? McAdoo's Populist Bid for Fed Dominance
  • Warburg's Ill-Fated Quest to Redraw the Federal Reserve's Map
  • Benjamin Strong's Quest for Reserve Bank Autonomy
  • Progressive and Hamiltonian Fed Reform Collaboration
  • Conclusion: The Federal Reserve Act as a Partisan Creation
  • 2 Making and Breaking a Hamiltonian Fed
  • War as Developmental Catalyst: The Fed's Rebirth in World War I
  • Fumbling the Return to Peace: Democratic Decline and Global Crisis
  • Republican Ascendance, Global Imbalance, and Strong's Great Idea
  • Political Attacks and the Federal Board's Populist Makeover
  • The Federal Reserve's Search for New Policy Ideas
  • The Advent and Struggle over Open Market Operations
  • International Liberalization and Strong's Great Idea to Restore Sterling
  • International Collaboration and the Chicago Discount Rate Controversy
  • Board Rising: Republican Weakening and Growing Board Veto Authority
  • The Board's Bid for Power and New York's Stock Market Bubble
  • Strong's Great Idea Repudiated: Policy Gridlock after the Crash
  • Conclusion: A Hamiltonian Central Bank in the Breaking
  • 3 An Engine of Inflation? The Populist Fed Interlude
  • Republican Collapse: Invitation for Progressive Reform
  • Eclipsed by the New Deal: The Fed's Marginalization and Rebirth
  • Leaving Gold, Devaluing the Dollar, and the Creation of a Populist Fed Competitor
  • Financing a Ramshackle Financial State
  • The Fight to Reconstruct the Fed: A New Deal Afterthought