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)

Lucas, Keynes, and the Crisis

The Case for Price Stability, Then and Now: A Retrospective Note on John W. Crow's 1988 Eric J. Hanson Memorial Lecture

Milton Friedman - A Brief Obituary

Successes and Failures of Monetary Policy Since the 1950s

Financial Stability, Monetarism and the Wicksell Connection (The 2007 John Kuszczak Memorial Lecture)

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

Woodford and Wicksell on Interest and Prices: The Place of the Pure Credit Economy in the Theory of Monetary Policy

Central Banks as Lenders of Last Resort - Trendy or Passe?

Chicago Monetary Traditions

Canada's Monetary Choices in North America and Britain's in Europe - Economic Parallels and Political Differences

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

Phillips in Retrospect

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)

Highlights of the Bullionist Controversy

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