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

ISBN-10
0788191918
ISBN-13
9780788191916
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2002-03
Author
James Livingston

Description

The rise of corporate capitalism during the late 19th and early 20th century has long been a source of lively debate among historians. Livingston here approaches this controversial topic from a fresh perspective, asking how a 3new order of corporate men2 made itself the preeminent source of knowledge on all significant economic issues and thereby changed the character of public and political discourse in the U.S. This is a provocative history of the Federal Reserve System, emphasizing its social, rather than narrowly economic or financial, origins. Attempts to show how corporate elites1 set the terms for the national debate over monetary reform. Includes source materials rarely examined by other scholars.

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