The monetary policy of the Federal Reserve : a history

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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; ONE The Pragmatic Evolution of the Monetary Standard; TWO Learning and Policy Ambiguity; THREE From Gold to Fiat Money; FOUR From World War II to the Accord; FIVE Martin and Lean-against-the-Wind; SIX Inflation Is a Nonmonetary Phenomenon; SEVEN The Start of the Great Inflation; EIGHT Arthur Burns and Richard Nixon; NINE Bretton Woods; TEN Policy in the Ford Administration; ELEVEN Carter, Burns, and Miller; TWELVE The Political Economy of Inflation; THIRTEEN The Volcker Disinflation

FOURTEEN Monetary Policy after the DisinflationFIFTEEN Greenspan's Move to Price Stability; SIXTEEN International Bailouts and Moral Hazard; SEVENTEEN Monetary Policy Becomes Expansionary; EIGHTEEN Departing from the Standard Procedures; NINETEEN Boom and Bust 1997 to 2001; TWENTY Backing Off from Price Stability; TWENTY-ONE The Volcker-Greenspan Regime; TWENTY-TWO The Fed: Inflation Fighter or Inflation Creator?; TWENTY-THREE The Stop-Go Laboratory; TWENTY-FOUR Stop-Go and Interest Rate Inertia; TWENTY-FIVE Monetary Nonneutrality in the Stop-Go Era

TWENTY-SIX A Century of Monetary ExperimentsAppendix: Data Seen by FOMC for the Stop-Go Period Shown in Figures 24.1, 24.2, and 24.3; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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