The work summarises the views on money and credit held by Giannino Parravicini, notable Italian banker and civil servant. Through a review of Parravicini's main works, the author draws a comparison between the problems of regulating the supply of credit in post-war Italy and in the contemporary...

Richard Cantillon and David Hume both propose the theory of monetary non-neutrality, whereby the money supply changes through the money balances of specific individuals. Such an uneven distribution of monetary change then spreads throughout the economy step by step and changes relative prices....

The purpose of this paper is to examine the intellectual roots of monetary dominance; specifically, the view that fiscal policy is largely irrelevant to counter-cyclical macro stabilisation and long-run output growth. A first step towards monetary dominance was the monetarist reinterpretation of...

Z biegiem czasu wiele kluczowych pogladow Miltona Friedmana (1912-2006) uleglo zmianie. Wiele z tych aktualnych pogladow nie jest powszechnie znanych. Czesciowa tego przyczyna jest brak wydania przez Friedmana jakiegokolwiek szczegolowego zestawienia rozwoju polityki monetarnej po 1960 roku....

We present an introduction to the translation of a part of the stock-flow consistent (SFC) framework published by the German economist Wolfgang Stützel in 1958, which follows in this issue. While not a quantitative model, Stützel's 'balance mechanics' has some features which still stand out...

This paper takes off from Jan Kregel's paper 'Shylock and Hamlet, or Are There Bulls and Bears in the Circuit?' (1986), which aimed to remedy shortcomings in most expositions of the circuit approach. While some circuitistes have rejected John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory, Kregel...

This paper takes off from Jan Kregel's paper "Shylock and Hamlet, or Are There Bulls and Bears in the Circuit?" (1986), which aimed to remedy shortcomings in most expositions of the "circuit approach". While some "circuitistes" have rejected John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory,...

Hayek (1984,1990) suggested an alternative to the current fiat money regime, which entails concurrent banks who issue their own money and operators concerned of purchasing power who select the less inflated money. Friedman (1984) opposed that network effects dominate purchasing power...

James Pennington's creativity as a scientific economist is matched only by his obscurity. He exemplifies the pioneering innovator who never gets his due recognition. Alone and with others he launched (1) the idea that checking deposits are money just like coin and notes, (2) the theory of the...

Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...