A monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960 by Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Milton Friedman

A monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960



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ISBN: 0691041474, 9780691041476
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Explanations can be grouped into the .. There are a number of competing explanations as to why the crisis was so severe. Often called the “high priestess of monetarism” she co-authored the classic A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 with Milton Friedman in 1963. Shrinkage since a 7.3% annual drop of the broadest money supply measure in January 1934 (comparative data from Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960). For economic policymakers, this crisis has been like a hundred-year flood—a disaster of the highest .. A monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960. Its social impact was even more harrowing as twenty-five percent of the US civilian labour force was unemployed by 1933, the worst point of the depression (Canterbery 2011, p.18). But as California's 11.5% unemployment rate attests, we still find ourselves slogging through the starkest economic landscape most of us have known in our lifetimes. There is a successful print precedent at PUP for this approach – in 1963 we published A Monetary History of the United States: 1867-1960, by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwarz. The result was summarized in a historical analysis of monetary policy, Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, which Friedman coauthored with Anna Schwartz. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Milton Friedman along with Anna Schwartz published a book in 1965 titled A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 which along with other work of his got him a Nobel Prize in Economics. In 1963, Schwartz and Friedman co-authored A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960.