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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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William L. Silber is the Marcus Nadler Professor of Economics and Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Medal in 1999 and was voted Professor of the Year by Stern MBA students in 1990, 1997, and 2018. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University and has written about monetary economics and financial history, including seven books, most recently, Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence, which chronicles the career of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. The Volcker biography won the China Business News Financial Book of the Year in 2013, was a finalist in the Goldman Sachs / Financial Times Business Book of the Year in 2012, and was named “One of the Best Business Books of 2012” by Bloomberg Businessweek. His first book, Money, coauthored with Lawrence Ritter, made a serious topic fun to read.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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FIGURE 12. (top) Photograph by Dimitri Karetnikov; (bottom) United States Mint
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INDEX
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Page numbers in boldface refer to illustrations
Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, 181, 186, 214
Abramson, Harold, 233
Acheson, Dean, 55, 57, 267n24
Adams, Alva, 63
Adams, Bud, 161
Adams, Edward R., 123
Adams, Eva, 107–8, 110, 114
Adams, William, 202
Advicorp PLC, 189
Affara, Mohammed, 186
Afghanistan, Russian invasion of, 199, 302n90
Agricultural Adjustment Act, 49; Thomas Amendment to, 50, 51, 61, 67, 266n40, 283n27
Al-Amoudi, Mohammad Aboud, 186, 215, 216
Allison, William, 24
Allott, Gordon, 117
Alter, Jonathan, 262n1
Amau Doctrine, 67
Amelkin, Sol, 138