Milton Schwartz: 3 books

The book includes incidents from early childhood to present, in various times and places of various tempers and moods; ironic, tragic, hopefully amusing, some sexual content reflecting my youthful attractions and exuberance. I am now beautifully at peace, overlooking the tidal marsh outside my home in Cape Cod with lamp of day and orb of night adding to the magic.

Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly...

Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady...