Freedom in Banking and the Founding of the Federal Reserve
ABSTRACT
This conference examined the establishment of the Federal Reserve System, focusing on the role of economic freedom, on the one hand, and government intervention, on the other, with an eye toward either enhancing or undermining financial order and stability.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
The Rationale of Central Banking
by
By Vera C. Smith
Foreword by Leland B. Yeager
The Rationale of Central Banking was first published in England in 1936. Vera Smith spent her professional career in a variety of research positions. She wrote articles and books on money, banking, economic development, and the labor market and translated into English books by Wilhelm Röpke, Oskar Morgenstern, and Fritz…
Additional Readings
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Haltom, Renee. “Why was Canada Exempt from Financial Crises?” Econ Focus (Fourth Quarter 2013): 22-25.
Hammond, Bray. “Banking in the Early West: Monopoly, Prohibition, and Laissez Faire.” The Journal of Economic History 8, no. 1 (May 1948): 1-25.
Livingston, James. Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Morawetz, Victor. The Banking and Currency Problem in the United States. New York: North American Review Publishing Company, 1911.
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Selgin, George. “The Suppression of State Banknotes: A Reconsideration.” Economic Inquiry 38, no. 4 (October 2000): 600-615.
Silber, William L. “The Great Financial Crisis of 1914: What Can We Learn From Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency.” American Economic Review 97, no. 2 (May 2007): 285-289.
Wicker, Elmus. The Great Debate on Banking Reform: Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005.