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| Title | Imagining the Fed: the struggle for the heart of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1970 |
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| Creators | Thompson Nicolas |
| Organization | State University of New York Press. |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
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| Language | English |
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| Record key | on1244535583 |
| Record create date | 4/2/2021 |
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Aldrich Plan as a Republican Hail Mary
- 2 Making and Breaking a Hamiltonian Fed
- 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
- 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
- Legislative Combat and Institutional Compromise
- Fed Reconstitution and Disempowerment
- Fed Policymaking as the Treasury’s Junior Partner amid a Golden Avalanche
- World War II: The New York Fed Empire Strikes Back
- Peace Deferred? The Democratic Dilemma of Postwar Reconstruction
- American Support for Embedded Liberalism and New York Fed Dissent
- Passing the New Deal Torch and the Dilemma of Postwar Reconstruction
- An Engine of Inflation: Eccles Turns on His Populist Fed Creation
- Conclusion: Reassessing Eccles’s Fed Legacy
- 4 Economists at the Gates: The Rise and Fall of an Egalitarian Fed
- Creative Demolition: William McChesney Martin’s Egalitarian Fed
- The Struggle for the Heart of the Federal Reserve
- The Limits of Independence under Eisenhower
- The Activation and Decay of Fixed Exchange Rates under Eisenhower
- Democratic Resurgence and the Battle to Save Bretton Woods
- The Old Guard Mission to Save Bretton Woods
- Walter Heller’s Transformative Fed Ambition
- Monetary Policy Deadlock under Kennedy
- War, Democratic Decay, and the Fed’s Technocratic Makeover
- Johnson’s Wars, the Failure of the New Economics, andthe Decline of Bretton Woods
- When Doves became Hawks:The Board’s Keynesian Invasion and Conversion
- Martin’s Egalitarian Fed Crumbles: Arthur Burns’s Takeover
- Consolidating Fed Technocracy
- Conclusion: The Old Guard’s Retreat and the Birth of the Modern Fed
- Conclusion: E Pluribus Unum: The Political Development of the Fed
- The Federal Reserve’s Braided Development
- A Stylized Portrait of the Modern Fed
- Implications of the Fed’s Rise for American Political Development
- Situating American Politics in a Global Setting
- Intersections of Political Time and Agency
- The Fed’s Role in the Waning of Political Time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
