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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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American in the Shadows: Harry Dexter White and the Design of the International Monetary Fund
Pages 6-23
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Building up a Multilateral Strategy for the United States: Alvin Hansen, Jacob Viner, and the Council on Foreign Relations (1939–45)
Pages 24-68
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A Hands-off Central Banker? Marriner S. Eccles and the Federal Reserve, 1934–51
Pages 69-90
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The Great Inflation of the 1970s: Evidence from the Archives
Pages 91-104
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- American Power and Policy
- Editors
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- R. Leeson
- Series Title
- Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-24614-0
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230246140
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-4956-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-52583-6
- Series ISSN
- 2662-6195
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 278
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