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• Author: Robert L. Hetzel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publish Date: March 17, 2008
• ISBN: 0521881323
• Pages: 408

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521881323
• ISBN-13: 978-0521881326

Review

'The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History is a comprehensive study of the evolution of monetary policy practiced by the Federal Reserve since its founding nearly a century ago. Hetzel brings a unique perspective to this material, a monetarist point of view rooted in his U of Chicago training, but a view profoundly influenced by an understanding of monetary policy in practice acquired as a life-long policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. The story is one of a nominal anchor for monetary policy lost with the collapse of the gold standard and found after decades of monetary turbulence in the priority that the Federal Reserve puts on low inflation and in anchoring inflation expectations. Hetzel enriches the story with remarkable insights about Federal Reserve behavior and with key insights from the modern New Neoclasscial Synthesis (New Keynesian) theory of monetary policy. This is an amazing story, one that Hetzel tells in great detail and with great enthusiasm.' Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University 'An invaluable historical account of the history of U.S. monetary policy under the Federal Reserve System.' Robert G. King, Boston University 'Robert Hetzel's chronicle of the turning points in Federal Reserve conduct of monetary policy illuminates the problems that successive chairmen from William McChesney Martin on encountered in transforming the central bank into the modern Fed. Hetzel describes three monetary experiments beginning with a detour to the real bills doctrine, followed by decades of stop-go experience until the Paul Volcker-Alan Greenspan disinflation that ushered in a new monetary standard. Over time the Fed learned rule-like behavior that created expectations by the public of low stable inflation that is now the nominal anchor for a fiat money regime. It differentiates monetary policy as practiced before the 1980s from its practices since. Hetzel has written a path-breaking study.' Anna J. Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic Research

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