This paper examines a previously overlooked episode in the history of the Federal Reserve involving the relationship between expectations at the outset of WWII regarding the possibility of German victory in Europe and its economic implications for the USA and Western Hemisphere. And this, as...

The 800 pound gorilla in the room of macroeconomics is the question of why the overlapping generations model didn't become the central workhorse model for macroeconomics. Introduced in 1958 by Paul Samuelson, the model postulates an infinite number of finite-lived families. This is in stark...

Introduction, Keynes’s Own IS-LM Approach -- Prologue to Keynes’s IS-LM, 1930 to 1932 -- The Advent of Keynes’s IS-LM, 1933 -- “The Missing Link”: Keynes’s Own Lecture Notes, December 4, 1933, Impact and Implications -- Reconstructing Keynes’s IS-LM Approach, 1931 to 1937 --...