Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913 9781501724718

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Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Banking Reform in Theory and History
PART I: The Decline of CompetitiveEntrepreneurial Capitalism, 188g-1gos
CHAPTER 1. The Great Stalemate: The Sources and Character of Late-Nineteenth-Century Crisis
CHAPTER 2. The Wheel Turns: The Emergence of Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1905
PART II: From Market Power to Cultural Authority: The Resolution of the Money Question, t8g4-1goo
CHAPTER 3. From Countercyclical Theory and Practice to Sound Money, I894-96
CHAPTER 4. Money and Modernity: The Making of the Gold Standard Act, I897-I900
PART III. From Theory to Practice: Toward a Central Banking System, 1900-191 2
CHAPTER 5. Money and Capital Markets in the Modern Economy: Managing the Corporate-Industrial Price System, I900-I9o6
CHAPTER 6. Forging a Consensus on Central Banking, 1906-8
CHAPTER 7. The National Monetary Commission and the New Agenda of Reform, 1908-12
PART IV. Money, Class, and Politics
CHAPTER 8. The Making of the Federal Reserve System
APPENDIX A. Glossary of Financial Terms
APPENDIX B. A Note on Class Analysis
Index

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Origins of the Federal Reserve System

ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, I890-I9I 3

JAMES LIVINGSTON

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

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