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Preface | ix | |
1. | The Federal Reserve and the Politics of Monetary Policy: Introduction and Overview | 1 |
What is at stake? | 3 | |
Relationships with external actors | 10 | |
A framework for examining issues and relationships in monetary politics | 15 | |
The political position of the Federal Reserve | 22 | |
Conclusion and overview | 27 | |
2. | A Capsule History of the Federal Reserve System | 30 |
Defining the role of government in financial matters | 31 | |
The Federal Reserve: proximate sources | 35 | |
The conception of the role of the Federal Reserve | 39 | |
Resolving the question of the location of power over monetary policy | 41 | |
Conclusion | 46 | |
3. | Recruitment and Selection of Federal Reserve Personnel | 48 |
Recruitment processes | 49 | |
Occupational backgrounds of successful candidates | 55 | |
Background and behavior | 61 | |
Movement out of the System | 64 | |
Conclusion | 67 | |
4. | Bankers and the Federal Reserve | 69 |
The question of capture | 69 | |
Bankers' interests | 71 | |
Bankers' political resources | 74 | |
What have the bankers received? | 80 | |
Conclusion | 85 | |
5. | Economists and the Federal Reserve | 88 |
Non-issues | 88 | |
Monetarists and the issues in monetary politics | 90 | |
Mainstream economists and control of the Federal Reserve | 96 | |
The monetarist counterthrust | 99 | |
Economists' conflicts and Federal Reserve behavior | 101 | |
Conclusion | 105 | |
6. | The President and the Federal Reserve | 108 |
Presidential relations with the Federal Reserve | 109 | |
Conflicts | 119 | |
Elections | 125 | |
Conclusion | 129 | |
7. | Congress and the Federal Reserve | 131 |
Congress: capabilities and incentives | 132 | |
The banking committees | 133 | |
Patterns of interaction with the Federal Reserve | 138 | |
The congressional challenge of 1975 | 144 | |
Conclusion | 152 | |
8. | Making Monetary Policy in a Political Environment: The Election of 1972 | 154 |
The plausibility of the charge of election-year misbehavior | 155 | |
Discordant notes: Burns versus the White House, 1970-1971 | 157 | |
The alternative view: the pressure of controls | 158 | |
Inside the FOMC in 1972 | 161 | |
1972 in retrospect | 168 | |
Conclusion | 179 | |
9. | Monetary Politics: A Summary | 181 |
Political economy approaches | 185 | |
Patterns of mobilization and monetary politics | 190 | |
Appendix A | A Note on Data Sources | 195 |
Appendix B | Legislation Included in Table 7.1 | 203 |
Appendix C | Academic Backgrounds and Career Experiences of Notable Monetarists | 208 |
Notes | 211 | |
Bibliographic Note | 271 | |
Index | 275 |
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