Monetary Policy and the Onset of the Great Depression

1. Monetary Policy as Scapegoat
Mark Toma

2. Founding of the Federal Reserve System
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3. Beyond the Founders’ Vision: Benjamin Strong as Decisive Leader or Figurehead?
Mark Toma

4. Modeling Discretion and Self-Regulation
Mark Toma

5. The Riefler-Burgess Doctrine
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6. Coming to Terms with the Scissors Effect
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7. Austrian and Monetarist Theories of the Onset of the Great Depression
Mark Toma

8. Coming to Terms with Benjamin Strong
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9. Did Reserve Banks Really Compete?
Mark Toma

10. The Seductiveness of the Decisive Leader View
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11. Epilogue
Mark Toma

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Policy, Microeconomics, Economic History, Heterodox Economics, Economic Systems