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Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced / ʃ w ɔːr t s / SHWORTS; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for The New York Times. Paul Krugman has said that Schwartz is "one of the world's greatest monetary scholars." [1]
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is a book written in 1963 by future Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.It uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the United States economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations.
Together with Anna Schwartz, he wrote in 1963 the influential book A Monetary History of the United States, concluding that movements in money explained most of the fluctuations in output, and reinterpreted the Great Depression as the result of a major mistake in American monetary policy, failing to avoid a large contraction in the money supply ...
The phrase was the title of a chapter in the 1963 book A Monetary History of the United States by Friedman and his fellow monetarist Anna Schwartz. The chapter was later published as a stand-alone book titled The Great Contraction, 1929–1933 in 1965. [1]
From January 2008 to May 2011, if you bought shares in companies when O. Temple Sloan, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -28.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a -9.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when W. James McNerney, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -0.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, with Anna J. Schwartz, 1963; part 3 reprinted as The Great Contraction "Money and Business Cycles" with A. J. Schwartz, 1963, Review of Economics & Statistics.
From January 2008 to May 2008, if you bought shares in companies when Victor A. Pelson joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 0.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -4.8 percent return from the S&P 500.