Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923
Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923

Author: Robert Craig West

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1501743848

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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 Secrets of the Federal Reserve -- The London Connection
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve -- The London Connection

Author: Eustace Mullins

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0359087450

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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 Great Debate on Banking Reform
The Great Debate on Banking Reform

Author: Elmus Wicker

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 0814210007

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"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 Wealth Effect
The Wealth Effect

Author: Jeffrey M. Chwieroth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 1107153743

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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.

Origins of the Federal Reserve System
Origins of the Federal Reserve System

Author: James Livingston

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1989-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780801496813

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In Origins of the Federal Reserve System, James Livingston approaches this controversial topic from a fresh perspective, asking how, during this era, a "new order of corporation men" made itself the preeminent source of knowledge on all significant economic issues and thereby changed the character of public and political discourse in the United States.