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The money makers : how Roosevelt and Keynes ended the Depression, defeated fascism, and secured a prosperous peace / Eric Rauchway.

Summary:

"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 John Maynard Keynes, among others, Roosevelt created the conditions for recovery from the Great Depression, deploying economic policy to fight the biggest threat then facing the nation: deflation, "--Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9780465049691
ISBN: 0465049699
Physical Description: xxx, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-290) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.