1st Edition

Monetary Theory in Retrospect The Selected Essays of Filippo Cesarano

By Filippo Cesarano Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

An objective and perceptive account of the literature of monetary theory, this volume, by a central banker who has studied monetary theory over the last quarter of a century, clearly shows how its inherent complexity is much enriched by the study of its history. In three parts Filippo Cesarano: focuses on the innovative ideas of distinguished economists who anticipated modern... Read more

1. On the Role of the History of Economic Analysis  Part 1 Classical Monetary Theory  2. Monetary Theory in Ferdinando Galiani's Della Moneta  3. De Viti de Marco as a Monetary Economist  4. On the Effectiveness of Changes in Money Supply: The Puzzle of Mill's View  5. Hume’s Specie-Flow Mechanism and Classical Monetary Theory: An Alternative Interpretation  6. ‘Keynes’s Revindication of Classical Monetary Theory  Part 2 Expectations and Monetary Policy  7. The Rational Expectations Hypothesis in Retrospect  8. Expectations and Monetary Policy: A Historical Perspective  Part 3 Monetary Theory and Monetary Systems  9. Law and Galiani on Money and Monetary Systems  10. Defining Fundamental Disequilibrium: Keynes’s Unheeded Contribution 11. The Origins of the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas 12. The History of Economic Analysis in Perspective

Biography

Filippo Cesarano