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The quantity theory of money was associated with the politics of the right in the '70s and '80s, but a century earlier, particularly in America, it had played an important part in the proposals of the Progressive left. These political associations are examined, and it is argued that a crucial...
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Most "leading" economics departments no longer teach the History of Economic Thought. Prominent macroeconomists nevertheless frequently deploy inaccurate accounts of the earlier development of ideas as rhetorical devices. These same economists have, however, also taught us that an understanding...
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This paper, prepared for the forthcoming Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (Ross Emmett and Malcolm Rutherford eds.) describes monetary economics as it existed in four eras at the University of Chicago. It begins with analysis, based on the Real Bills Doctrine, developed by J....
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