Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables xiii
4. Charts xv
5. Preface xxi
6. CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1
7. CHAPTER 2. The Greenback Period 15
8. CHAPTER 3. Silver Politics and the Secular Decline in Prices, 1879-97 89
9. CHAPTER 4. Gold Inflation and Banking Reform, 1897-1914 135
10. CHAPTER 5. Early Years of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-21 189
11. CHAPTER 6. The High Tide of the Reserve System, 1921-29 240
12. CHAPTER 7. The Great Contraction, 1929-33 299
13. CHAPTER 8. New Deal Changes in the Banking Structure and Monetary Standard 420
14. CHAPTER 9. Cyclical Changes, 1933-41 493
15. CHAPTER 10. World War II Inflation, September 1939-August 1948 546
16. CHAPTER 11. Revival of Monetary Policy, 1948-60 592
17. CHAPTER 12. The Postwar Rise in Velocity 639
18. CHAPTER 13. A Summing Up 676
19. APPENDIXES
20. APPENDIX A. Basic Tables 703
21. APPENDIX B. Proximate Determinants of the Nominal Stock of Money 776
22. Director's Comment 809
23. Author Index 815
24. Subject Index 819