Money Banking And Inflation
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Money, Banking, and Inflation
Author: Thomas M. Humphrey
language: en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date: 1993
Thomas M. Humphrey has made many significant contributions to the theories of money, banking and inflation. This book presents his most important work on the application of the history of economic thought to the analysis of current policy problems. Money, Banking and Inflationfocuses on such traditional central banking concerns as money stock control, price level stabilization, interest rates smoothing, exchange rate targeting, lender-of-last-resort responsibilities, limitations imposed by short-run trade-offs and non-neutralities, and appropriate responses to supply shocks. Three of the essays, however, digress from these themes to focus on geometrical diagrams employed in price theory and the theory of commercial policy. Virtually all the essays take an historical-doctrinal perspective which besides showing how these theories developed over time, allows them to be ranked according to their effectiveness in monetary controversies old and new. This authoritative and enlightening volume will be welcomed not only as a supplement to money and banking texts which fail to emphasize the historical-doctrinal development of their subject, but also as a corrective to the tendency in history of economic thought research towards non-monetary rather than monetary doctrines.
The Great Inflation
Author: Michael D. Bordo
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2013-06-28
Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.
Money, Inflation and Business Cycles
Who would disagree that money matters? Economists have yet to sufficiently explore issues related to monetary inflation in relation to the Cantillon effect, i.e. distribution and price effects resulting from uneven changes in the money supply and their impact on the economy. This book fills this important gap in the existing literature. The author classifies the various channels through which new money can be injected into the economy and demonstrates that it is not only the increase in money supply that is important, but also the way in which it occurs. Since the increase in money supply does not affect the cash balance of all economic entities in the same proportion and at the same time – new money is introduced into the economy through specific channels – a distribution of income and changes in the structure of relative prices and production occur. The study of money supply growth, carried out in the spirit of Richard Cantillon, offers an important analytical framework that facilitates the development of a number of sub-disciplines within economics and provides a better understanding of many economic processes. It significantly explores the theory of money and inflation, the business cycle and price bubbles, but also the theory of banking and central banking, income distribution, income and wealth inequalities, and the theory of public choice. This book is therefore an important voice in the fundamental debate on the role of monetary factors in the economy, as well as on the effects and legitimacy of a loose monetary policy. In 2017, the doctoral dissertation on which the book is based was awarded the Polish Prime Minister’s prize. In these times of non-standard monetary policy and rising income inequalities in OECD countries, the focus on the distribution effect of monetary inflation makes this a must read for researchers and policy-makers and for anyone working in monetary economics. This title was translated from Polish by Martin Turnau.