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Abraham Lincoln

This individual established greenbacks as the national currency and did several unconstitutional acts during the Civil War.

Paul Moritz Warburg

The author gave credit to this individual for engineering the Federal Reserve System at the Jekyll Island meeting in 1910.

Paul Volker

This individual served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. The author referred to this person as one of the outstanding economic scientists to come out of the era that ushered in the Federal Reserve System.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This individual become became associated with the New Deal which the author referred to as socialism.

John Maynard Keynes

This individual was a British economist who believed in regulating economics to reduce the effects of recessions in the business cycle and to moderate the boom times so they would not get out of control.

John Kenneth Galbraith

This individual was a renowned Keynesian economist who...

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