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Allan H. Meltzer is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of History of the Federal Reserve, Volume I: 1913–1951 (University of Chicago Press, 2002), a definitive research work on the Federal Reserve system. Meltzer discussed “How to Restore Growth with Low Inflation” on Thursday, October 6, at the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco. The event was part of the Hoover Breakfast Briefings.

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25 Years After 9/11: The History And Future Of Surveillance, Technology, And Democracy
How does a free society use increasingly powerful technologies to protect itself without compromising the freedoms it exists to protect? Register To… Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Monday, November 16, 2026
Reading Adam Smith in North Korea An Insider's View of the State
The Northeast Asia History Working Group of the Hoover History Lab invites you to attend Reading Adam Smith in North Korea: An Insider's View of the… Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Rural America
Symposium On Domestic Rural Life And Institutions
Rural America encompasses diverse communities and experiences, shaped by a wide range of political, economic, social, and environmental forces. 
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