Biographical Dictionary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

by Bernard S. Katz

With the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the United States formally established a middle ground between the competing forces of the bankers' need for private control and the populist call for governmental oversight. But despite its role as the nation's only centralized banking authority, and its importance as a decision-making body, the Federal Reserve as an institution has always been fiercely protective of its own independence. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313266581
• ISBN13: 9780313266584
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"