Keynes' General Th&ry was a brilliant attanpt to plain the paradoxof 1CM interest rates, ineffectual easy rn,netaxy policy, and lowinvestrtntduring the Great Depression. We argue that Keynes' failure to distinguishbetween low naninal and high real interest rates led hint to misinterpret atight...

Almost eleven years ago to the day, Anna Schwartz and we began a detailed study of inflation under the Bretton Woods System and in the year that immediately followed its breakdown. At the time, the consensus view among economists and in a sizeable portion of the financial community was that...

Popular wisdom informs us that one of the prime victims of the American financial deregulation of the last decade has been the demand for money function. While there is some evidence that the demise of standard monetary relations has been oversold (see Rasche 1987, 1988, and Darby, Mascaro, and...