Money and central banking books

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• The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith

  The Wealth of Nations

  Adam Smith

  The founding text of modern economics, including early views on money, banking and credit.

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• Principles of Political EconomyJohn Stuart Mill

  Principles of Political Economy

  John Stuart Mill

  A widely used 19th-century treatise that covers money, credit and prices.

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• Lombard StreetWalter Bagehot

  Lombard Street

  Walter Bagehot

  Sets out how a central bank should lend freely in a panic to stop a banking collapse.

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• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

  John Maynard Keynes

  Argues that demand and interest rates can keep economies below full employment, and that policy can respond.

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• A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (NationalMilton Friedman & Anna Jaconson Schwartz

  A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Business Cycles)

  Milton Friedman & Anna Jaconson Schwartz

  Argues that Federal Reserve policy failures deepened the Great Depression.

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