Clara Mattei, associate professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, recently published a book, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, (…| Uneasy Money
In my previous post, I explained how the real-bills doctrine originally espoused by Adam Smith was later misunderstood and misapplied as a policy guide for central banking, not, as Smith understood…| Uneasy Money
Robert Hetzel, a distinguished historian of monetary theory and of monetary institutions, deployed his expertise in both fields in…| Uneasy Money
One of my goals when launching this blog in 2011 was to revive interest in the important, but unfortunately neglected and largely forgotten, contributions to monetary and macroeconomic theory of Ra…| Uneasy Money