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Carl Snyder, Pioneer Economic Statistician and Monetarist
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This article is published in History of Political Economy.The article was published on 1978-09-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Statistician.read more
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Chicago, Harvard, and the Doctrinal Foundations of Monetary Economics
TL;DR: The relationship between Friedman's monetary economics and the views espoused by Chicago and non-Chicago quantity theorists during the years 1930-36 is examined in this paper, where it is shown that Chicago economists advanced the efficacy of monetary policy as the means of escaping from the Great Depression, provided that such a policy was implemented by the use of budget deficits to generate monetary expansion.
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The Rules versus Discretion Debate Over Monetary Policy in the 1920s
TL;DR: Hetzel as discussed by the authors reviewed the debate which took place in the congressional hearings on the Strong bill and pointed out that Benjamin Strong's policy was based on his belief that the Fed had the ability to influence the price level by controlling levels of bank reserves.
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The rules verses discretion debate over monetary policy in the 1920s
TL;DR: Hetzel as discussed by the authors reviewed the debate which took place in the congressional hearings on the Strong bill and pointed out that Benjamin Strong's policy was based on his belief that the Fed had the ability to influence the price level by controlling levels of bank reserves.
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Competing visions for the U.S. monetary system, 1907-1913: the quest for an elastic currency and the rejection of Fisher's compensated dollar rule for price stability
TL;DR: In this article, the debats of reforme bancaire entre les theoriciens quantitativistes and leurs opposants, aux Etats-Unis, entre la panique bancaires de 1907 and the creation du Systeme Federal de Reserves (FED) are discussed.
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Rhetorical Metrics Building Securities Regulation in America’s Era of Booms and Busts, 1890-1940
TL;DR: The role of metrics in regulation can be understood only if technical and social aspects are considered together as mentioned in this paper, and a rhetorical approach can be used to argue for the role of quantification when procedural rules are lacking.