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Monetary Policy of the Fed Reserve | 
| Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Category: EBooks
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Sales Rank: 27084
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Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 408
Dewey Decimal Number: 339.530973
ASIN: B0017SF3JM
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
Details the evolution of the monetary standard from the start of the Federal Reserve through the end of the Greenspan era. The book places that evolution in the context of the intellectual and political environment of the time. By understanding the fitful process of replacing a gold standard with a paper money standard, the conduct of monetary policy becomes a series of experiments useful for understanding the fundamental issues concerning money and prices. How did the recurrent monetary instability of the 20th century relate to the economic instability and to the associated political and social turbulence? After the detour in policy represented by FOMC chairmen Arthur Burns and G. William Miller, Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan established the monetary standard originally foreshadowed by William McChesney Martin, who became chairman in 1951. The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve explains in a straightforward way the emergence and nature of the modern, inflation-targeting central bank.
Book Description
The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve details the evolution of the monetary standard from the start of the Federal Reserve through the end of the Greenspan era. Monetary Policy explains in a straightforward way the emergence and nature of the modern, inflation-targeting central bank.
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A rigorous analysis of the Fed's triumphs and failures May 19, 2008
This book is a 21st century version of Friedman and Schwartz's classic Monetary History of the United States. The monetarist-leaning author shows how the Fed won the battle over inflation in some decades but lost the battle in others. Citing hundreds of FOMC transcipts and interviews with key decisionmakers, the author provides an almost anthropological account of what it means to be "soft on inflation" or "tough on inflation."
I didn't agree with everything in the book, and that's a sign of just how good it is: Hetzel takes strong positions and argues them with statistical and archival evidence. I wrote an enormous amount in the margins--the hints of future lecture notes from when I (surely) teach with this book in the near future.
One of the great services Hetzel performs is dragging into the light quotes from old-line Keynesians (including some Nobel Laureates) who said it was impossible or impractical to bring inflation down from 6% to 1% (sic), as well as quotes from famous Keynesians who argued that inflation-fighting wasn't even the Fed's business.
Those guys had it wrong, wrong, wrong. Nowadays, almost all macroeconomists seem to agree that long-lasting "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon," as Milton Friedman used to say, but elite economists in the 50's, 60's, and 70's mocked such views. Hetzel has the goods on those who mocked the monetarists, one of the many little treasures in this fascinating volume.
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