The Contribution of a Monetary History of the United States: 1867 to 1960 To Monetary History

Michael Bordo

No 2549, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper assesses the role of Friedman and Schwartz's "A Monetary History of the United Slates: 1867 to 1960" as a progenitor of research in monetary history. The paper critically surveys the literature on three major themes in the book: monetary disturbances; the domestic monetary framework and monetary policy: and monetary standards. The book's unique portrayal of the historical circumstances of monetary disturbances and of alternative institutional arrangements serves as the closest thing to a laboratory experiment for the monetary economist. Historical study has become an important tool of modern macroeconomic research.

Date: 1988-04
Note: ME
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Published as The Contribution of "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960" to Monetary History. From Money, History and International Finance: Essaysin Honor of Anna J. Schwartz, edited by Michael D. Bordo, pp. 15-70. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Published as The Contribution of "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960" to Monetary History , Michael D. Bordo. in Money, History, and International Finance: Essays in Honor of Anna J. Schwartz , Bordo. 1989

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w2549.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: The Contribution of "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960" to Monetary History (1989)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:2549

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w2549

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().