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A history of money and banking in the United States : the colonial era to World War II / Murray N. Rothbard ; ed ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno.

Title
A history of money and banking in the United States : the colonial era to World War II / Murray N. Rothbard ; ed ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno.
Author
Rothbard, Murray N. (Murray Newton), 1926-1995.
Publication
Auburn, Ala. : Ludwig von Mises Institute, c2002.

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Description
510 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Shows through detailed historical investigation how sound money and banking have been the font of prosperity and freedom in American history, and how loose credit, paper money, and inflation have led to social and economic calamity. In chronicling how the gold standard was attacked and destroyed, Rothbard departs from the conventional method of merely assembling money-supply data to name the special interests that benefited from the destruction. Rothbard's story is informed by the Austrian School of economics.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1. The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- pt. 2. The origins of the Federal Reserve -- pt. 3. From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal Reserve and the financial elites -- pt. 4. The gold-exchange standard in the interwar years -- pt. 5. The New Deal and the international money system.
ISBN
0945466331 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2003271102
OCLC
  • 51205107
  • SCSB-11803104
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library