This paper examines the relationship of the monetary economics of James Tobin to modern monetary theory, which has diverged in many ways from the directions taken by Tobin and his associates (for example, moving away from multi-asset models of financial market equilibrium and from monetary...

1. Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer -- 2. Indifference Curves and a Hydraulic Model of General Equilibrium -- 3. Revitalizing the Quantity Theory of Money: From the Fisher Relation to the Fisher Equation -- 4. The Fisher Diagram and the Neoclassical Theory of Interest and Capital...

Trevor Swan independently developed the neoclassical growth model. Swan (1956) was published ten months later than Solow (1956), but included a more complete analysis of technical progress, which Solow treated separately in Solow (1957). Reference is sometimes made to the "Solow-Swan growth...

For the past several years, we have presented and published studies based on postal related data, from postmaster cash books and the Official Register, where we use postmaster salary data as a measure of local, highly disaggregate proxies for general economic activity at town and village level....