David Laidler
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
The Development of Classical, Neoclassical and Keynesian Monetary Economics; Monetary Policy Regimes, with special reference to Canada and North America
Teaching Fields
Canadian Macroeconomic Policy; History of Economic Thought
Working Papers
The End of the History of Economic Thought and its Future
The Monetary Economy and the Economic Crisis
Harvard, the Chicago Tradition and the Quantity Theory: A Reply to James Ahiakpor (with Roger Sandilands)
Milton Friedman - A Brief Obituary
Successes and Failures of Monetary Policy Since the 1950s
Axel Leijonhufvud and the Quest for Micro-foundations — Some Reflections
Monetary Cooperation in the North American Economy
Keynes and the Birth of Modern Macroeconomics
Free Banking and the Bank of Canada
Central Banks as Lenders of Last Resort - Trendy or Passe?
What Was Lost with IS-LM (with Roger E. Backhouse)
Monetary Policy without Money: Hamlet without the Ghost
Meltzer's History of the Federal Reserve
The Price Level, Relative Prices, and Economic Stability: Aspects of the Inter-war Debate
Inflation Targets Versus International Monetary Integration: A Canadian Perspective
Two Views of the Lender of Last Resort: Thornton and Bagehot
The Role of the History of Economic Thought in Modern Macroeconomics
Skidelsky's Keynes: A Review Essay
From Bimetallism to Monetarism: The Shifting Political Affiliation of the Quantity Theory
Remedies for Financial Crises in the Classical and Neoclassical Literature
An Early Harvard Memorandum on Anti-depression Policies (with Roger Sandilands)
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