Milton Friedman Contributions to Economics and Public Policy
, by Cord, Robert A.; Hammond, J. DanielNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198704324 | 0198704321
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/15/2016
Robert A. Cord, Researcher in Economics,J. Daniel Hammond, Hultquist Family Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Wake Forest University
Robert A. Cord is as a researcher in economics. His specialist area of interest is the history of economic thought and, within this, the history of macroeconomics. He is the author of Keynes (Haus 2007), and Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution (Routledge, 2012). Dr Cord holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
J. Daniel Hammond is Hultquist Family Professor of Economics and Department Chair at Wake Forest University. His research is on the history of economics, especially economics at the University of Chicago. He has also done work on T.R. Malthus and the formation of Malthusian ideas regarding population and resource use. He is currently working on a history of scientism in economics and related fields. He is Past President of the History of Economics Society (2001-02), and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Introduction
Part 1. Reflections on Friedman
1. Milton Friedman as Teacher and Scholar, Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
2. Milton Friedman: An Appreciation, Arnold C. Harberger
3. Remembering Milton Friedman, Gregory C. Chow
4. The Place of Milton Friedman in the History of Economic Thought, Bennett T. McCallum
5. Milton Friedman's Public Life After Retirement, 1976-1988, Allan H. Meltzer
Part 2. Monetary Theory and Policy
6. Milton Friedman as an Empirical Modeler, Neil R. Ericsson, David F. Hendry, and Stedman B. Hood
7. Milton Friedman and US Monetary History, Michael D. Bordo
8. Reflections on Friedman's Macroeconomics, Richard Selden
9. Reflections on Milton Friedman, the South during the Civil War, and Current Events, Eugene Lerner
10. Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics: Theory and Empirics, James R. Lothian
11. Friedman, Chicago, and Monetary Rules, Harris Dellas and George S. Tavlas
12. Why and How Should a Monetary Economy be Stabilised? The Forgotten Lessons of Milton Friedman, Sylvie Rivot
13. Friedman's Characterization of the Natural Rate of Unemployment, K. Vela Velupillai
14. What Would Milton Friedman Have Thought of Market Monetarism?, Scott B. Sumner
15. Friedman and Divisia Monetary Measures, William A. Barnett
16. Arthur Burns and Milton Friedman: Why did the Master (Burns) and the Disciple (Friedman) Understand Inflation in a Diametrically Opposed Way?, Robert L. Hetzel
17. Milton Friedman and the Federal Reserve Chairs in the 1970s, Edward Nelson
18. Monetary Targeting in Australia: Problems of Control and Prediction, Selwyn Cornish
19. Milton Friedman, the Quantity Theory and Hyperinflation in Russia, Vincent Barnett
Part 3. Consumption Theory, Fiscal Policy, and Public Policy
20. Friedman's Theory of Income and Consumption, Then and Now, John J. Seater
21. Milton Friedman's Contributions to Fiscal Economics, Michael J. Boskin
22. Milton Friedman's Contributions to Measuring the Income Effects of Borrowed Government Deficits, Robert D. Auerbach
23. Milton Friedman and the Finance of Higher Education, Nicholas Barr
24. Milton Friedman, Drug Legalization, and Public Policy, Mark Thornton
25. Milton Friedman and Occupational Licensing, Morris M. Kleiner
26. Slaves or Mercenaries? Milton Friedman and the Institution of the All-Volunteer Military, John D. Singleton
27. Straining the Social Bond: Government Policy vs. Social Custom in Capitalism and Freedom, Paul Turpin
Part 4. Methodology
28. On Reading and Misreading Friedman's 1953 Methodology Essay, Lawrence A. Boland
29. Milton Friedman's Methodology, Macroeconomics, and the Great Recession, Patrick Minford
30. Milton Friedman: A Bayesian?, Gerald P. Dwyer
31. Friedman and the Cowles Commission, Marcel Boumans
Part 5. Friedman and Other Economists
32. Milton Friedman: Constructing an Anti-Keynes, Craig Freedman, G.C. Harcourt, Peter Kriesler, and J.W. Nevile
33. The Economics and Political Economy of Milton Friedman: An Old Keynesian Critique, Thomas I. Palley
34. Friedman and his Collegial Detractors, Russell S. Boyer
35. Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler: Early Interactions and Connections, J. Daniel Hammond
36. Friedman and the Austrians, Roger W. Garrison
37. Milton Friedman, James Buchanan and Constitutional Political Economy, Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
38. Friedman and Robbins, Susan Howson
39. Friedman and Viner, Douglas A. Irwin
40. Economists as forecasters: Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson, 1970-1974, Robert A. Cord
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