Allan H. Meltzer's history of the Federal Reserve System tells the story of one of America's most influential but least understood public institutions. Volume 2, in two parts, covers the period from the Treasury-Federal Reserve accord in 1951 through to the mid-1980s.
Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the instituti…
This first volume of Allan H. Meltzer's history of the Federal Reserve System covers the period from the Federal Reserve's founding in 1913 through the Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord of 1951. To understand why the Federal Reserve acted as it did at key points in its history, Me…
