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The money makers how Roosevelt and Keynes ended the Depression, defeated fascism, and secured a prosperous peace

"With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to unprecedented prosperity and superpower status. Drawing on the ideas of the brilliant British economist J...

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Main Author: Rauchway, Eric.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group, [2015]
Subjects:
Barber, Kenneth F. tribute.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Influence.
Keynes, John Maynard, > 1883-1946 > Influence.
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference > (1944 : > Bretton Woods, N.H.)
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
United States > Economic policy > 1933-1945.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Keynesian president and us
  • A system to save the world: 1918-1919
  • The last days of the gold dollar: 1932-1933
  • The future of the dollar begins: March 6-10, 1933
  • Prosperity first: March 11-July 4, 1933
  • A dollar to stop revolution: 1933-1934
  • A new dollar, if you can keep it: 1934-1935
  • The anti-Fascist dollar: 1934-1939
  • Blood and treasure, 1939-41
  • Whose dollar is it anyway? 1942-1943
  • To the Fabyan Station: 1943-1944
  • The Bretton Woods disagreements: 1944
  • The battle for Bretton Woods, 1945
  • Epilogue: Bretton Woods and after.

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