The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory / / David E.W. Laidler.

How did neoclassical monetary economics, as epitomized by the work of Fisher, Wicksell, and the Cambridge School, evolve from the classical orthodoxy that dominated economics in the 1870s? To answer this question, David Laidler considers the interaction of theoretical developments with contemporary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 171
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. An overview
  • 2. The orthodoxy of the 1870s
  • 3. The neoclassical theory of the price level: the Cambridge School and Fisher
  • 4. The monetary element in neoclassical cycle theory
  • 5. Wicksell and the quantity theory
  • 6. Neoclassical monetary theory and monetary institutions
  • 7. A summing up
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index