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Jacob Viner and the Chicago monetary tradition

2009

The paper aims at assessing Jacob Viner's role in that brand of monetary thought which historians associate with the Chicago School and whose origins can be retraced in the writings and teaching of Frank Knight, Lloyd Mints, Henry Simons and Viner himself. After a brief description of the prolonged debate over the origins and nature of the so called “Chicago Monetary Tradition”, we examine Viner's analyses and policy proposals drawing particular attention to: his analysis of the Great depression; his proposals for monetary expansion and banking reform; his shift of emphasis in favour of Fiscal Policy; the evolution of its monetary framework in the early 1930's. Finally, we compare his posit…

Economics and EconometricsHistoryJacob Viner Harvard Chicago School MonetarismSettore SECS-P/04 - Storia Del Pensiero EconomicoKeynesian economicsEconomicsEconomic historyGreat DepressionKnightPosition (finance)Fiscal policy
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Review of Jacob Viner, Lectures in Economics 301, edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Steven G. Medema, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (USA) and Lo…

2014

Settore SECS-P/04 - Storia Del Pensiero EconomicoJacob Viner Teaching Economics Microeconomics Institutionalism Theory of Capital Chicago School
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