Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imagining a Fed in the Making

1. Escape from Jekyll Island: The Federal Reserve's Birth in Political Time

2. Making and Breaking a Hamiltonian Fed

3. An Engine of Inflation? The Populist Fed Interlude

4. Economists at the Gates: The Rise and Fall of an Egalitarian Fed

Conclusion: E Pluribus Unum: The Political Development of the Fed

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nicolas Thompson is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida.