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Elgin Groseclose presents this history of people’s experiences with money through the centuries.
I would propose no greater service to the profession and to the country than that monetary economists begin a revision of their concepts of money, to draw a distinction between the attributes of money and its substance and to give recognition to the mysterious and awesome force of moral integrity in its management.
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Elgin Groseclose
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Elgin Earl Groseclose (1899–1983) was an American economist, a statesman, and the author of America’s Money Machine.
[April 5 is the 90th Anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order banning private ownership of gold. In this selection from Part III of America’s Money Machine: The Story of the Federal Reserve...
[Excerpted from book 7, Money and Man.] The name of that ardent Scotsman, John Law, is short. His career was likewise short: he was comptroller general of France for less than five months in the year...
Elgin Groseclose , an eminent monetary economist in the 20th-century , rips the roof off the Federal Reserve in this wonderful history that takes us from the Fed’s founding to the 1960s . He shows that the gap between the promise and the reality is
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934.
