Imagining the Fed: the struggle for the heart of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1970

Abstract

Introduction: Imagining a Fed in the making -- Escape from Jekyll Island: The Federal Reserve's birth in political time -- Making and breaking a Hamiltonian Fed -- An engine of inflation? The Populist Fed interlude -- Economists at the gates: The rise and fall of an egalitarian Fed -- Conclusion: E pluribus unum: The political development of the Fed.