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Complete Bibliography for Allan Meltzer’s A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951, and Volume 2: 1951-1986 Revised, October 2018 Abel, Andrew B. “Comment on Feldstein.” In Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy, edited by Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, 156–66. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. http://www.nber.org/chapters/c8883.pdf. Abrams, Burton A. “How Richard Nixon Pressured Arthur Burns: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 4 (2006): 177–88. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1167/item/2388. Ackley, Gardner. Macroeconomic Theory. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1961. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489924405. Aftalion, Albert. Selected Documents on the Distribution of Gold. Geneva, Switzerland: League of Nations, 1931. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845345. Aliber, Robert Z. “Comment [on Obstfeld].” In Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for International Monetary Reform, edited by Michael Bordo and Barry Eichengreen, 257–64. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6871. Andersen, Leonall C., and Jerry L. Jordan. “Monetary and Fiscal Actions: A Test of Their Relative Importance in Economic Stabilization.” Review (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) 50 (November 1968): 11–24. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/820/item/24594/toc/500189. Anderson, Clay J. Evolution of the Role and Functioning of the Discount Mechanism. Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1966. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/706/item/23549. Anderson, Clay J. Half Century of Federal Reserve Policymaking. Philadelphia, PA: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 1965. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/3602. Anderson, Gary, William F. Shughart, and Robert Tollison. “Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction.” Public Choice 59, no. 1 (October 1988): 3–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00119446. Anderson, Richard G., and Robert H. Rasche. “Eighty Years of Observations on the Adjusted Monetary Base.” Review (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) 81 (January 1999): 3–22. https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/1999/01/01/eighty-years-of- oberservations-on-the-adjusted-monetary-base-1918-1997/. Anderson, Robert B., and William McChesney Martin. “Government Securities Market: Summary of Treasury-Federal Reserve Study.” Federal Reserve Bulletin, August 1959, 1–17. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/62/item/21296?start_page=42. 1 Complete Bibliography for Allan Meltzer’s A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951, and Volume 2: 1951-1986 “Archives.” New York, NY, n.d. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Archives. Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Arndt, H. W. Economic Lessons of the Nineteen Thirties. New York, NY: Kelley, 1966. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422042704. Atkeson, Andrew, and Lee E. Ohanian. “Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation?” Quarterly Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) 25, no. 1 (2001): 2–11. http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr2511.pdf. Auerbach, Robert. “Painful History of Fed Transparency.” Www.Marketwatch.Com, May 8, 2006. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-former-fed-economist-urges-more-transparency. Awalt, Francis Gloyd. “Recollections of the Banking Crisis in 1933.” Business History Review 43, Aut (1969): 347–71. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/3593. Axilrod, Stephen H. “Commentary.” Review (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) 87, no. 2 (March 2005): 237–42. https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2005/04/15/commentary-on-the-reform- of-october-1979-how-it-happened-and-why/. Axilrod, Stephen H. “Empirical View of Even Keel.” Washington, DC, April 22, 1969. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1184. Axilrod, Stephen H. “FOMC Directive as Structured in the Late 1960s: Theory and Appraisal.” Washington, DC, January 28, 1970. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1185. Axilrod, Stephen H. “Formulation and Implementation of Federal Reserve Open Market Policy.” Washington, DC, 1970. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Axilrod, Stephen H. “Interview with Stephen H. Axilrod,” June 26, 1997. Axilrod, Stephen H., Allan H. Meltzer, Robert H. Rasche, and Peter D. Sternlight. “Money, Credit and Banking Debate: Is the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Control Policy Misdirected?” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 14, no. 1 (February 1982): 119–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1991497. Bach, George L. “Criteria for the Conduct of Monetary Policy.” In Monetary Process and Policy: A Symposium, edited by George Horwich. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1967. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422127522. Bach, George L. Making Monetary and Fiscal Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1971. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/132288. Bagehot, Walter. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1962. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/3603. 2 Complete Bibliography for Allan Meltzer’s A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951, and Volume 2: 1951-1986 Bailey, Stephen K. Congress Makes a Law: The Story Behind the Employment Act of 1946. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1950. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236820. Balbach, Anatol B. “Mechanics of Invention in the Foreign Exchange Market.” Review (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) 60, no. 2 (February 1978): 2–7. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/820/item/24605/toc/500244. Balke, Nathan S., and Robert J. Gordon. “Appendix B: Historical Data.” In The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change, edited by Robert J. Gordon, 781–850. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1986. http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10036.pdf. Ball, George W. “Personal Papers of George W. Ball.” Austin, TX, n.d. Personal Papers of George W. Ball. LBJ Presidential Library. Ball, Laurence. “Genesis of Inflation and the Costs of Disinflation.” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 23, no. 3, part 2 (August 1991): 439–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1992678. Ball, Laurence. “Short-Run Money Demand.” NBER Working Paper Series. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2002. http://www.nber.org/papers/w9235. Ball, Laurence, and N. Gregory Mankiw. “Sticky Price Manifesto.” Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 41 (December 1994): 127–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167- 2231(94)00016-6. Baltensperger, Ernst. “Monetary Policy Under Conditions of Increasing Integration.” In Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark: Central Bank and the Currency in Germany Since 1948, edited by Deutsche Bundesbank, 439–523. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40810277. Barber, William J. Designs Within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=xdk_r5Q- GvwC&lpg=PP1&dq=designs%20within%20disorder&pg=PP1. Barger, Harold. Management of Money: Survey of American Experience. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally and Company, 1964. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246385. Barger, Harold. Outlay and Income in the United States, 1921-1945. New York, NY: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1942. http://papers.nber.org/books/barg42-2. Barro, Robert J., and David B. Gordon. “A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model.” Journal of Political Economy 91, no. 4 (August 1983): 589–610. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1831069. 3 Complete Bibliography for Allan Meltzer’s A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951, and Volume 2: 1951-1986 Barro, Robert J., and Chaipat Sahasakul. “Average Marginal Tax Rates from Social Security and the Individual Income Tax.” Journal of Business 59, no. 4, part 1 (October 1986): 555–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2353008. Barro, Robert J., and Chaipat Sahasakul. “Measuring the Average Marginal Tax Rate from the Individual Income Tax.” Journal of Business 56 (October 1983): 419–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2352842. Barsky, Robert B., and Lutz Kilian. “Oil and the Macroeconomy Since the 1970s.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 4 (2004): 115–34. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1167/item/2392. Barth, James R., Philip F. Bartholomew, and Carol J. Labich. “Moral Hazard and the Thrift Crisis: An Analysis of 1988 Resolutions.” Research Paper (United States. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Office of Policy and Economic Research). Washington, DC: Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Office of Policy and Economic Research, May 1989. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1226. Baruch, Bernard M., and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Statement of Bernard M. Baruch: [Excerpt from Investigation of Economic Problems: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate… Pursuant to S. Res. 315, Authorizing and Directing the Finance Committee to Make an Investigation and Study of the Present Economic Problems…], § 72nd Congress, 2nd session (1933). https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/176. Bator, Francis M. “Personal Papers of Francis M. Bator.” Austin, TX, n.d. Personal Papers of Francis M. Bator. LBJ Presidential Library. Beckhart, Benjamin H. Federal Reserve System. New York, NY: American Institute of Banking, 1972. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/494980. Benston, George J. Government Regulation of Financial Services and Markets: An Overview and Critique. Atlanta, GA: [Emory University Press], 1997.
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