The problems posed by monetary policy cannot be dealt with by legislating enduring policy rules. With the passage of time, economic understanding does not systematically converge ever more closely on a "true" model of the economy, a process which is now sufficiently far along that our current...

Mayer über Monetarismus: Anmerkungen aus britischer Sicht Ich habe an Mayers Aufsatz substantiell wenig zu bemängeln. Allerdings werden in verschiedenen Ländern unterschiedliche Seiten des Monetarismus hervorgehoben. Meine Anmerkungen beziehen sich auf den Monetarismus aus britischer Sicht....

Gewisse Aspekte des Monetarismus um 1970 – aus der Sicht von 1994 Aus der Sicht von 1994 war der Monetarismus des Jahres 1970 nicht annähernd eine so homogene und in sich geschlossene Doktrin, wie dies der Fall zu sein schien. Drei unterschiedliche Ansätze zwischen den Hauptproponenten der...

In order to promote the exchange of ideas and to support its own research capacity, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank regularly invites internationally renowned economists for short guest professorships. This year, from June 12 -14 2006, David Laidler gave three public lectures on topics related...

The monetary economy has properties that cannot be analyzed using the tools of today's dynamic general equilibrium analysis. Keynes's economics, far from being an aberration in the otherwise orderly evolution of modern macroeconomics from Adam Smith's ideas about the "invisible hand", was a...

The economic crisis that began in 2007 and still lingers has invited comparison with the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has also generated renewed interest in Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's explanation of the latter as mainly the consequence of the Fed's failure as a lender of last...

Harry Johnson's 1971 ideas about the factors affecting the success of the Keynesian Revolution and the Monetarist Counter-revolution are summarised and extended to the analysis of the Rational Expectations - New Classical (RE-NC) Revolution It is then argued that, whereas Monetarism brought...

In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure on a journey to price-level stability, but became a well-established monetary policy regime in its own right. This paper analyses the role of the interaction of economic ideas with the experience generated by their...

The Fisher relation played a very different role in debates surrounding the Great Depression and the more recent Great Recession. This paper explores some of these differences, and suggests an explanation for them derived from a sketch of the idea's evolution between the two events, thus...