The American Monetary System

Robert A. Degen

[1987]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface

• Chapter 1:
  Conception and Birth of the Federal Reserve System
• Chapter 2:
  World War I and Postwar Adjustment, 1914-1921
• Chapter 3:
  The Prosperious Twenties, 1922-1929
• Chapter 4:
  The Great Depression, 1929-1939
• Chapter 5:
  Financing World War II, 939-1945
• Chapter 6:
  Post-World War II Adjustment, 1945-1951
• Chapter 7:
  An Era of Relative Calm, 1951-1965
• Chapter 8:
  Inflation Lifts Off, 1965-1969
• Chapter 9:
  The Tempest of the Seventies, 1970-1979
• Chapter 10:
  Charting a New Course? 1980-1985
• Chapter 11:
  Summing Up

• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index