Anna J. Schwartz (1915-2012)

Estudia en el Barnard College (B.A. en 1934), en la  Columbia University, (M.A. en 1935) en la que también obtiene el doctorado en 1964. Es profesora de economía en la City University of New York (1967-1969) y en la New York University. Entre otros honores, presidió la Western Economic Association, (1987-88).

Sus trabajos se centraron en la economía financiera, su regulación, la transmisión internacional de la inflación, los ciclos de negocios, el papel de los gobiernos en la política monetaria, el comportamiento de los tipos de interés, la deflación y los sistemas monetarios.

Sus trabajos más conocidos son los que realizó en colaboración con Milton Friedman, analizando el papel del dinero en los ciclos especialmente en el libro "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960" en el que culpa de la Gran Depresión a los cambios en la política monetaria de la Reserva Federal. También publicó su artículo  "Money and Business Cycles" y los libros "Monetary Statistics of the United States in 1970" y "Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom: Their Relation to Income, Prices, and Interest Rates, 1867–1975 in 1982"

Falleció el 21 de junio de 2012

Obras de Anna J. Schwartz

• "British Share Prices, 1811-1859", 1940, REStat
• "The Beginning of Competitive Banking in Philadelphia, 1782-1809.", 1947, JPE
• "An Attempt at a Synthesis in American Banking History", 1947, JEH
• Growth and Fluctuation of the British Economy, 1790-1850, con A.D. Gayer y W.W. Rostow, 1953.
• A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, con Milton Friedman, 1963.
• "Money and Business Cycles", con Milton Friedman, 1963.
• "The Definition of Money" con M. Friedman, 1969.
• "Why Money Matters", 1969, Lloyds BR
• Monetary Statistics of the United States, con Milton Friedman, 1970.
• "Secular Price Change in Historical Perspective", 1973, JMCB
• "How Feasible is Flexible Monetary Policy?", 1975, in Selden, editor, Capitalism and Freedom
• "Has the Growth of Money Substitutes Hindered Monetary Policy?", con P. Cagan, 1975, JMCB.
• "Monetary Trends en the United States and the United Kingdom, 1878-1970", 1975, JEH
• "Issues in Monetary Economics and their Impact on Research in Economic History", 1977, en Gallman, editor, Research in Economic History
• "Policies for Research in Monetary Economics", 1977, en M. Perlman, editor, The Organization and Retrieval of Economic Knowledge.
• "The Banking Reforms of the 1930s", 1979, en Walton, editor, Regulatory Change in an Atmosphere of Crisis
• "Money and Prices in the Nineteenth Century: An old debate rejoined", con M.D. Bordo, JEH
• "Understanding 1929-1933", 1981, en K. Brunner, editor, Great Depression Revisited
• A Century of British Market Interest Rates, 1874-1975., 1981.
• "Money and Prices in the Eighteenth Century: Was Thomas Tooke right?", con M.D. Bordo, 1981, Explorations in Economic History.
• "The Effect of the Term Structure of Interest Rates on the Demand for Money in the United States", 1982, con M. Friedman, 1982, JME
• "Interrelations between the United States and the United Kingdom, 1873-1975.", con M. Friedman, 1982, J Int Money and Finance
• Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1982, con M. Friedman.
• "Reflections on the Gold Commission Report", 1982, JMCB
• "International Debt, Insolvency and Illiquidity", con K. Brunner, 1983, J of Economic Affairs
• "The Importance of Stable Money: Theory and Evidence", con M.D. Bordo, 1983, Cato Journal
• The International Transmission of Inflation, 1983.
• A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931 con M.D. Bordo, 1984.
• "International Lending and the Economic Environment", 1984, Cato Journal.
• "Real and Pseudo-Financial Crises", 1986, en Wood, editor, Financial Crises and World Banking Policy.
• "Has Government Any Role in Money?",  con M. Friedman, 1986, JME
• "Alternative Monetary Regimes: The Gold Standard", 1986, en Campbell and Dougan, editores, Alternative Monetary Regimes
• "The Behavior of Money Stock under Interest Rate Control: Evidence for Canada", con M.D. Bordo and E.U. Choudhri, 1987, JMCB
• Money in Historical Perspective, 1987.
• "Bank Runs and Deposit Insurance Reform", 1988, Cato Journal
• "Transmission of Real and Monetary Disturbances under Fixed versus Floating Rates", con M.D. Bordo, 1990, Cato Journal
• "International Debts: What's fact and what's fiction", 1990, Economic Inquiry.
• "The Performance and Stability of Banking Systems under "Self-Regulation": Theory and Evidence" con M.D. Bordo, 1995, Cato Journal
• "International Financial Crises: Myths and reality", 1998, Cato Journal