Table of Contents

Contents: Economics as a Way of Life – A Personal Memoir 1. ‘The Rate of Interest and the Demand for Money – Some Empirical Evidence’ 2. ‘The Results and Implications of Recent Empirical Work on the Aggregate Demand Function for Money in the United States’ 3. ‘The Permanent-Income Concept in a Macro-economic Model’ 4. ‘Money, Wealth and Time Preference in a Stationary Economy’ 5. ‘The Phillips Curve, Expectations and Incomes Policy’ 6. ‘The Current Inflation – Explanations and Policies’ 7. ‘Monetarist Models of Inflation in Closed and Open Economies’ 8. ‘Information, Money and the Macroeconomics of Inflation’ 9. ‘Monetarism: An Interpretation and an Assessment’ 10. ‘A Small Macro-model of the Post-War United States’ 11. ‘On the Demand for Money and the Real Balance Effect’ 12. ‘Did Macroeconomics need the Rational Expectations Revolution?’ 13. ‘The “Buffer Stock” Notion in Monetary Economics 14. ‘Taking Money Seriously’ 15. ‘What Remains of the Case for Flexible Exchange Rates?’ 16. ‘The Quantity Theory is Always and Everywhere Controversial – Why?’ 17. ‘Price Stability and the Monetary Order’ 18. ‘Monetarism – the Unfinished Business’ Index

About the Author

David Laidler, formerly Bank of Montreal Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario and former Fellow in Residence, C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, Canada