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Review of A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913–51, by Allan H. Meltzer

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07/30/2014Greg Kaza

 

Volume 8, No. 1 (Spring 2005)

 

Austrians have demonstrated that recessions—and depressions—are the inevitable result of central bank intervention in the economy. The book’s greatest weakness is its inference that all economists critical of the 1920’s credit structure were somehow real-bills ideologues.

Author:

Greg Kaza

Greg Kaza is executive director of the Arkansas Policy Foundation.

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Kaza, Greg. "Review of A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913–51, by Allan H. Meltzer." The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 8, No. 1 (Spring 2005): 87–91.