Milton Friedman - A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

Studies in Business Cycles

(Titles 1 through 12 that are not listed below in the series are available through the National Bureau of Economic Research.)

6. Personal Income during Business Cycles, by Daniel Creamer with the assistance of Martin Bernstein

9. Federal Receipts and Expenditures During Business Cycles, 1879-1958 by John M. Firestone

10. Business Cycle Indicators: Volume I, Contributions to the Analysis of Current Business Conditions; Volume II, Basic Data on Cyclical Indicators, edited by Geoffrey H. Moore

12. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz

A Monetary History
of the
United States
1867-1960

MILTON FRIEDMAN
ANNA JACOBSON SCHWARTZ

A STUDY BY THE
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, NEW YORK

PUBLISHED BY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON

Copyright 1963, by National Bureau of Economic Research

All Rights Reserved

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ISBN 0-691-00354-8 (paperback edn.)

ISBN 0-691-04147-4 (hardcover edn.)

First Princeton Paperback Edition, 1971

Fifth Hardcover Printing, 1971

Ninth Paperback Printing, 1993

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