Who was listening before the Financial Crisis of 2008 to Arrow’s warnings and the teachings of Coase? Due to transaction costs, incomplete foresight and bounded rationality not all risks that would be desirable to shift can be shifted through the market. Financial firms and other institutions...

The development of the European Monetary Union is related to Milton Friedman’s critique of the Bretton Woods System that started a vigorous debate about “fixed versus flexible exchange rates.” This paper briefly contrasts the arguments pro and con flexible exchange rates at this time....