TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnon,Arie
TI  - Monetary theory and policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: money, credit, and economy 
SN  - 9780521191135
U1  - 339.53 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Banks and banking, Central
KW  - History
KW  - Economists
KW  - Monetary policy
N1  - This book provides a comprehensive survey of the major developments in monetary theory and policy from David Hume and Adam Smith to Walter Bagehot and Knut Wicksell. In particular, it seeks to explain why it took so long for a theory of central banking to penetrate mainstream thought. It investigates how major monetary theorists understood the roles of the invisible and visible hands in money, credit and banking; what they thought about rules and discretion and the role played by commodity-money in their conceptualizations; whether or not they distinguished between the two different roles carried out via the financial system; how they perceived the influence of the monetary system on macroeconomic aggregates such as the price level, output and accumulation of wealth; and finally, what they thought about monetary policy
ER  -