A Monetary History Of The United States
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is a book written in 1963 by Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz. It collects together historical data and economic analysis to argue the then novel proposition that changes in monetary policy (changes in the rate of growth of the money supply) profoundly influenced the US economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations.
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