A history of money and banking in the United States
Subtitle: the colonial era to World War II
By: Murray N. Rothbard ; ed. with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno.
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Auburn, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
Subjects: Banks and banking -- United States -- History.; Money -- United States.
Description: Shows through detailed historical investigation how sound money and banking have been the font of prosperity and freedom in American history, and how loose credit, paper money, and inflation have led to social and economic calamity. In chronicling how the gold standard was attacked and destroyed, Rothbard departs from the conventional method of merely assembling money-supply data to name the special interests that benefited from the destruction. Rothbard's story is informed by the Austrian School of economics.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1.; title: The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- -- pt. 2.; title: The origins of the Federal Reserve -- -- pt. 3.; title: From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal Reserve and the financial elites -- -- pt. 4.; title: The gold-exchange standard in the interwar years -- -- pt. 5.; title: The New Deal and the international money system.