This paper resolves a long-running debate in the economics literature – the debate over Smith's theory of money and banking – and thereby revolutionizes current understanding about the history and evolution of monetary analysis. Smith did not present either the real-bills theory or a...

The common narrative about Jean-Baptiste Say's treatment of money holdings is that he denied the possibility of hoarding. I show that this interpretation of Say's thinking is erroneous. Drawing upon the various editions of Traité and Cours and other lesser-known texts, I provide substantial...

In his August 30th, 1935 letter to Keynes, Harrod not once, but twice, conceded that Keynes had radically reconstituted the classical and neoclassical theory of the rate of interest by pointing out that the standard theory was one equation short. However, by adding the missing Liquidity...

Extreme mathematical illiteracy played a basic, fundamental role in the assessments made by Joan Robinson, Ralph Hawtrey and Dennis Robertson of Keynes's Theory of Liquidity Preference, which Harrod described in an August 30 1935, letter to Keynes as a major reconstruction of interest rate...

This paper examines the intellectual heritage of the debate between the Currency and Banking Schools of 19th-century England in regard to three Viennese economists: Rudolf Hilferding, Ludwig von Mises, and Joseph Schumpeter. I first provides a brief summary of the debate between the Currency and...

Though contemporaries, Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart are commonly portrayed as men belonging to different eras. Whereas Smith went down in history both as founder of Classical Political Economy and patron of economic liberalism, Steuart became known as the last, outdated advocate of...

[enter AbsIn a recent paper Túñez (2016) has reviewed the validity of Walras’Law for a Monetary Exchange Economy using a Non-Compensatory Disequilibrium Framework (NCDF). This paper will apply the same theoretical Framework to a Monetary Productive Economy with Bonds to demonstrate that,...

Joan Robinson created a large number of myths in her lifetime aimed at attacking Keynes, such as the claim about R. Kahn inventing and teaching Keynes about the Multiplier, her claim that Keynes’s ‘instantaneous ‘ multiplier is highly suspect, her claim that Keynes had a purely monetary...