Benjamin Strong, the Federal Reserve, and the Limits to Interwar American Nationalism: Part I: Intellectual Profile of a Central Banker

Roberts, Priscilla, Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Part I: Intellectual Profile of a Central Banker

This essay on Benjamin Strong, the first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1928), evolved from the author's research on the development of an American internationalist tradition during and largely in consequence of the First World War. Viewing Strong's activities in the broader context of the world view and diplomatic preferences of the educated East Coast establishment, a foreign policy elite to which Strong belonged and most of whose norms he accepted, greatly illuminates his broader motivations and the interwar relationship between finance and overall international diplomacy. Strong's work for international …

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Publication information: Article title: Benjamin Strong, the Federal Reserve, and the Limits to Interwar American Nationalism: Part I: Intellectual Profile of a Central Banker. Contributors: Roberts, Priscilla - Author. Journal title: Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Volume: 86. Issue: 2 Publication date: Spring 2000. Page number: 61+. © Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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