Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 280 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511571510
Content:
This is the first book to describe and analyze the relationships between the Federal Reserve and the president, Congress, bankers, and economists. Far from being politically independent, the Federal Reserve is shown to be sensitive to a wide range of political influences
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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The Federal Reserve and the Politics of Monetary Policy: Introduction and Overview -- What is at stake? -- Relationships with external actors -- A framework for examining issues and relationships in monetary politics -- The political position of the Federal Reserve -- A Capsule History of the Federal Reserve System -- Defining the role of government in financial matters -- The Federal Reserve: proximate sources -- The conception of the role of the Federal Reserve -- Resolving the question of the location of power over monetary policy -- Recruitment and Selection of Federal Reserve Personnel -- Recruitment processes -- Occupational backgrounds of successful candidates -- Background and behavior -- Movement out of the System -- Bankers and the Federal Reserve -- The question of capture -- Bankers' interests -- Bankers' political resources -- What have the bankers received? -- Economists and the Federal Reserve -- Non-issues -- Monetarists and the issues in monetary politics -- Mainstream economists and control of the Federal Reserve -- The monetarist counterthrust -- Economists' conflicts and Federal Reserve behavior -- The President and the Federal Reserve -- Presidential relations with the Federal Reserve -- Conflicts -- Elections -- Congress and the Federal Reserve -- Congress: capabilities and incentives -- The banking committees -- Patterns of interaction with the Federal Reserve -- The congressional challenge of 1975 -- Making Monetary Policy in a Political Environment: The Election of 1972.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521250979
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521312479
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521250979
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511571510
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