Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.

HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].

$400.00

Item Number: 120723

Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.

First edition of this work on the former head of the former Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Gordon Sorensen with highest regards from Marriner Eccles.” Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.

Marriner Stoddard Eccles was an American banker, economist, and member and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Eccles was known during his lifetime chiefly as having been the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He has been remembered for having anticipated and supporting the theories of John Maynard Keynes relative to "inadequate aggregate spending" in the economy which appeared during his tenure.