This timely volume provides a second collection of Thomas Humphrey’s papers in the area of the history of economic thought and is a long-awaited companion to his critically acclaimed first volume of essays, Money, Banking and Inflation.

Money, Banking and Inflation focuses on such traditional central banking concerns as money stock control, price level stabilization, interest rates smoothing, exchange rate targeting, lender-of-last-resort responsibilities, limitations imposed by short-run trade-offs and non-neutralities, and...

Review of Sylvia Nasar's "Grand pursuit: the story of economic genius," New York: Simon & Shuster, 2011.

Virtually all references to the Fisher Effect assume that its appearance in nominal interest rates is a simultaneous result of borrower and lender effects. However, Irving Fisher, and Henry Thornton before him emphasized the activist role on the borrower (demand) side of the loan market. Their...

The current international debt situation has led some analysts to suggest the possibility of a scenario whereby international debt defaults quickly lead to severe strains on domestic commercial banks. In this context, monetary and central bank policy become especially important. And in such...

Classical economists David Hume, Pehr Niclas Christiernin, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, Thomas Attwood, and Robert Torrens looked beyond the redistributive (creditor-debtor) effects of deflationary monetary contraction to its adverse effects on output and employment. They attributed these...

Marshall made at least four contributions to the classical quantity theory. He endowed it with his Cambridge cash-balance money-supply-and-demand framework to explain how the nominal money supply relative to real money demand determines the price level. He combined it with the assumption of...

Traditionally, central banks seeking to stabilize general prices have followed policies similar to those advocated by Knut Wicksell: when prices are higher that desired, raise interest rates to exert downward pressure on prices, and conversely. Despite the historical predominance of interest...