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To: maceng2 who wrote (43314)	9/11/2002 8:20:32 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Don't place any bets on that is my sincere recommendation. I did not mean it in an insulting way, it's just very hard to pick up US history on the fly. I had a rough time with Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation because of the minute detail about 17th, 18th and 19th century British history - the Corn Laws, the Enclosure Acts, the Poor Laws, my head was spinning. I had no general understanding of the time period to contextualize Polanyi's explanations. But don't let me discourage you. You might be able to get the book from the library if all you are interested in is the bits about the Federal Reserve and the Great Depression. That's only a few chapters. But Friedman & Schwartz are a little old hat these days. The new guys on the block like Barry Eichengreen are the ones to read, in my opinion. pup.princeton.edu