Minnie Throop England published important articles on crises and cycles between 1906 and 1915, but has been forgotten in the history of macroeconomics. Her promotion theory of cycles was close to Schumpeter's cycle theory, and she was an important critic of Fisher's monetary theory of...

While much has been written about the history of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics after its move from Colorado Springs to Chicago in 1939, its earlier history under the first two Cowles Commission research directors, Charles F. Roos and Harold T. Davis, is little known. This paper...

Divided into two parts, this book presents a detailed, multi-faceted analysis of banking and monetary policy. The first part examines the role of central banks within an endogenous money framework. These chapters address post-Keynesian interest rate policy, monetary mercantilism, financial...

This paper examines Patinkin's analysis of Fisher's monetary economics, with regard to the integration of monetary and value theory, the origins of the Chicago school and Fisher's relationship to Cambridge monetary theory.

The Keynesian macroeconomist James Tobin presented an ambitious program for social policy, sketched in the titles of "It Can be Done! Conquering Poverty in the US by 1976" (1967), "On Limiting the Domain of Inequality" (1970), "On Improving the Economic Status of the Negro" (1965), and "Raising...