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“Carola Binder, an economics professor, offers a history of inflation and monetary institutions in the United States, studying how they have affected politics, reshaped economic institutions, and upended economic theories. The book has several themes: inflation and disinflation has had a distributional aspect, helping some groups and hurting others; unexpected changes in purchasing power and the value of debts have affected contracting and due process; inflation crises have expanded the role of government; and modern inflation targeting has deep historical roots.” Read more...
The Best Economics Books of 2024
Jason Furman, Economist
Our most recommended books
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Anna Schwartz & Milton Friedman -
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis -
This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L Heilbroner -
The Passions and the Interests
by Albert Hirschman -
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by David S Landes
