A Monetary History of the United States 1867–1960

Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960. Combining theoretical and empirical analysis with institutional insights, that volume provided an intricately detailed account of the role of money in the U.S. economy since the Civil War. Especially influential was the authors’ claim that the Great…

Schwartz, in the classic study A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963), argued that the death in 1928 of Benjamin Strong, who had been the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1914, was a significant cause of this inaction. Strong had been a forceful…

…of money and prices—such as A Monetary History of the United States (1963) by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz—restored much of the quantity theory’s lost prestige. One implication of this theory is that the size of the stock of money must be considered when shaping governmental policies meant to control…

” In A Monetary History of the United States 1867–1960 (1963), Friedman, in collaboration with Anna J. Schwartz, presented a thorough analysis of the U.S. money supply from the end of the Civil War to 1960. This detailed work influenced other economists to take monetarism seriously.

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz (1963), which became the benchmark work of monetarism, criticized Keynesian fiscal measures along with all other attempts at fine-tuning the economy. With its emphasis on money supply, monetarism enjoyed an enormous…