Recounts the emergence of central banking ideas and institutions in US from the formation of the First Bank of the US to the enactment of the Federal Reserve Sy

This 2005 treatment compares the central banks of Britain and the United States.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the historical experiences of monetary policymaking of the world's largest central banks. Written in celebration of the 350th

In this extensive history of U.S. monetary policy, Richard H. Timberlake chronicles the intellectual, political, and economic developments that prompted the use