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The Chicago Plan and New Deal Banking Reform

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
1994
Updated
2016

The Chicago Plan and New Deal Banking Reform presents a comprehensive history and evaluation of the role of the 100% reserve plan in the banking legislation of the New Deal reform era—from its inception in 1933 to its re-emergence in the current financial reform debate in the US.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Quest for Stable Banking

  • Chapter 1: A History of Currency and Banking in the United States

  • Chapter 2: Response to the Banking Crisis: Hoover, Congress, and the Economists

  • Chapter 3: Roosevelt's Election and the Banking Crisis of 1933

  • Chapter 4: The March 1933 Chicago Memorandum

  • Chapter 5: The 100 Days Legislation and the Banking Act of 1933

  • Chapter 6: The November Chicago Memorandum

  • Chapter 7: The Banking Reform Agenda: A Federal Monetary Authority and Credit Allocation

  • Chapter 8: Currie, Eccles, and the Ideal Conditions for Monetary Control

  • Chapter 9: 100% Money: Fisher's Version of the Chicago Plan

  • Chapter 10: The Banking Act of 1935

  • Chapter 11: Academic Views of the Chicago Plan

  • Chapter 12: The Chicago Plan after the Passage of the Banking Act of 1935

  • Chapter 13: Financial Instability and Narrow Banking: Simmons Revisited

  • Chapter 14: Conclusion