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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 September 2009
      29 March 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511528255
      9780521552059
      9780521022644
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528255
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 250 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.381kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
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    Focusing on the period of Milton Friedman's collaboration with Anna J. Schwartz, from 1948 to 1991, this 1996 work examines the history of debates between Friedman and his critics over money's causal role in business cycles. Professor Hammond shows that critics' reactions were grounded in two distinctive features of Friedman and Schwartz's way of doing economic analysis - their National Bureau business cycle methods and Friedman's Marshallian methodology. With the post-war dominance of Cowles Commission methods and Walrasian methodology, Friedman and Schwartz's monetary economics appeared to contemporary critics to be 'measurement without theory'. Drawing extensively upon unpublished materials, Professor Hammond's treatment offers new insights on Milton Friedman's attempts to settle debates with his critics and his eventual recognition of the methodological impediments. The book will interest monetary economists and macroeconomists, as well as historians of economics and methodologists.

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    '… I consider the overall scientific quality of the book excellent. Any scholar of the history of the twentieth-century macroeconomics will find it stimulating.'

    Source: History of Economic Ideas

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