We discuss the development of policy rules at the University of Chicago and compare those rules with modern, Taylor-type rules. A key feature of the 1930s Chicago approach was the view that discretionary monetary policy has a destabilizing effect on the economy. Empirical confirmation of this...

This paper examines the different policy rules proposed by Henry Simons, who, beginning in the mid-1930s, advocated a price-level stabilization rule, and by Milton Friedman, who, beginning in the late-1950s, advocated a rule that targeted a constant growth rate of the money supply. Although both...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Ein Vergleich von Freiburger und Österreichischer Schule -- 3. Schumpeter - Unternehmertheorie und Konjunkturablauf sowie die Frage nach Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie -- 4. Milton Friedman - Freiheit und das Wachstum der...

This book demonstrates that 'monetary analysis', as contained in Post-Keynesian monetary theories, but also in the Neo-Ricardian monetary theory of distribution and in Marx's monetary analysis, can be integrated into Post-Keynesian models of distribution of growth in a convincing way.