All Posts Tagged With: "economic shocks"
Money in the 1920s and 1930s
Richard Timberlake is a professor of economics retired from the University of Georgia, and author of Monetary Policy in the United States, An Intellectual and Institutional History (University of Chicago Press, 1993). This article is the first in a series. One of the most enduring and troublesome mysteries in economics is money: how it is [...]
1Apr1999 | Richard H. Timberlake | 3 comments | Continued-
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