The Foundations of Monetary Economics presents an authoritative collection of key articles on monetary economics – one of the most contentious areas of economics. David Laidler – who has himself made important contributions – has selected those articles which are essential to an...

Money and Macroeconomics is a significant collection of David Laidler’s most important papers on the so-called ‘monetarist counter-revolution’. This volume contains both published and unpublished examples of his influential contribution, detailing empirical work on the demand for money,...

David Laidler is one of the leading scholars in the history of economic thought and macroeconomics. This important collection brings together nineteen of his essays on topics in the history of macroeconomics. It begins with a paper on Adam Smith and ends with a discussion of the implications of...

This two volume set reprints 28 papers on fiscal and monetary policy interpreted broadly enough to include such issues as the effects of government debt and intergenerational accounting. It emphasizes problems that are not specific to a particular country but are relevant for all developed...

This volume takes as its central core the question of how changes in the supply or demand for money and for other financial assets affect prices, output and interest rates. The topics covered include the microeconomics of money, the role of money in portfolios, money demand functions, the...

This engaging and intelligent book provides an accessible, down to earth assessment of the role of formalism and rigour in economics.

Doing Economic Research brings together a series of authoritative and illuminating essays by Thomas Mayer which bridge the gap between the abstract work of methodology and the practical research problems that concern the professional economist.

This coherent thematic selection of Professor Mayer's most significant recent essays, some of which are published here for the first time, reflects his most important work in macroeconomic policy. The essays focus on the structure and ideology of monetarism, macroeconomic theory and economic...

This unique book deals with the most serious macroeconomic failure experienced in the US in the post-war period and the great inflation of the late 1960s and 1970s. It is the first detailed analysis, using Federal Reserve documents, of the thinking behind the inflationary monetary policy during...