When analysing any social phenomenon, encounters among different social science disciplines and fields of investigation dispersed over time and space may well produce illusory rapprochements. Such encounters nevertheless have great potential for producing truly common knowledge. In matters of...

Compared with the period 1920-1990, the current monetary policy implementation techniques are relatively well-focused and transparent. In particular, (i) they mostly aim at achieving a well defined operational target (typically the overnight interest rate), (ii) monetary policy operations are...

In this paper I analyze the work on exchange rates and external imbalances by University of Chicago faculty members during the university's first hundred years, 1892-1992. Many people associate Chicago's views with Milton Friedman's advocacy for flexible exchange rates. But, of course, there was...