Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein
America’s Bank is a mixed bag. Lowenstein ignores history and tells the narrative from a central bank bias when there were rival reforms at play.
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Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) “The problem with economic historians,” Murray Rothbard once quipped, “is that half of them are historians who don’t know any economics and the other half are economists who don’t...
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