The Chicago Plan & New Deal Banking Reform

The Chicago Plan & New Deal Banking Reform

by Ronnie J. Phillips

Pages: 227

Contributors: Ronnie J. Phillips

Publisher: M. E. Sharpe

Place of Publication: Armonk, NY

Publication Year: 1995

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Quest for Stable Banking

1: A History of Currency and Banking in the United States

2: Response to the Banking Crisis: Hoover, Congress, and the Economists

3: Roosevelt's Election and the Banking Crisis of 1933

4: The March 1933 Chicago Memorandum

5: The 100 Days Legislation and the Banking Act of 1933

6: The November Chicago Memorandum

7: Banking Reform Agenda: a Federal Monetary Authority and Credit Allocation

8: Currie, Eccles, and the Ideal Conditions for Monetary Control

9: 100% Money: Fisher's Version of the Chicago Plan

10: The Banking Act of 1935

11: Academic Views of the Chicago

12: The Chicago Plan After the Passage of the Banking Act of 1935

13: Financial Instability and Narrow Banking: Simons Revisited

14: Conclusion

Appendix: The Chicago Plan for Banking Reform

Notes

References

Index

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