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American Power and Policy

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Robert Leeson

    1. Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA
      Notre Dame Australia University, Australia

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Part of the book series: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics (AIEE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Leeson
    Pages 1-5

  3. American in the Shadows: Harry Dexter White and the Design of the International Monetary Fund

    • James M. Boughton
    Pages 6-23

  4. Building up a Multilateral Strategy for the United States: Alvin Hansen, Jacob Viner, and the Council on Foreign Relations (1939–45)

    • Sebastiano Nerozzi
    Pages 24-68

  5. A Hands-off Central Banker? Marriner S. Eccles and the Federal Reserve, 1934–51

    • Matías Vernengo
    Pages 69-90

  6. The Great Inflation of the 1970s: Evidence from the Archives

    • John Lodewijks, Robert Leeson
    Pages 91-104

  7. An Archival Case Study: Revisiting The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie

    • Roger J. Sandilands
    Pages 105-133

  8. New Evidence on Allyn Young’s Style and Influence as a Teacher

    • Roger J. Sandilands
    Pages 134-179

  9. A Scholar in Action in Interwar America: John H. Williams on Trade Theory and Bretton Woods

    • Pier Francesco Asso, Luca Fiorito
    Pages 180-242

  10. Shaping Monetary Constitutions for Developing Countries: Some Archival Evidence on the Bloomfield Missions to South Korea (1949–50)

    • Michele Alacevich, Pier Francesco Asso
    Pages 243-266

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-278
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Uses archival evidence to provide unique insights into US economics, focusing on the origins of the IMF, building a multilateral strategy for the US, the Great Inflation of the 1970s, and on Marriner S. Eccles, Lauchlin Currie, Allyn Young, John H. Williams and Arthur I. Bloomfield.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA

    Robert Leeson

  • Notre Dame Australia University, Australia

    Robert Leeson

About the editor

ROBERT LEESON has taught at a variety of Universities, including Stanford, London, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Western Ontario, Flinders and Murdoch. He has published widely in journals such as the Economic Journal, Economica, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Urban Studies, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought and History of Economics Review. He has published eight books, including A.W.H. Phillips' Collected Works. He is currently the co-editor of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman.

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