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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) -- History.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) |
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History. |
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United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Economic policy. |
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20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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History.
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State University of New York Press.
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Print version: 9781438482590 1438482590 (DLC) 2020024804 (OCoLC)1158502966 |
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9781438482606 (electronic book) |
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1438482604 (electronic book) |
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9781438482590 |
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1438482590 |
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