The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a
clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current …

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers shows an
engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with …

The most sophisticated monetary and banking policy advice available in the decades after
1776 was found in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Smith recommended free competition …

This thesis studies the 100% money proposal, such as it was formulated in the United States
in the 1930s by Henry Simons, Lauchlin Currie and Irving Fisher in particular. The essence …

Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but on the understanding that
societal changes for the better are an unintentional product of commerce. Furthermore, as if …

Adam Smith's analysis of banking is often studied as part of the history of banking in
Scotland, of free banking, or of the Real Bill doctrine debate1—topics that are not part of …

Standard models of the price specie flow do not consider credit. Yet Hume and preceding
authors were reacting to the implosion of Law's financial bubble. We delineate the anti-credit …

Cette thèse étudie la proposition 100% monnaie, telle qu'elle fut formulée aux États-Unis
dans les années 1930 par Henry Simons (l'auteur principal du «Plan de Chicago») …

Mercantilist theories and policies in early capitalism have been criticized for confusing
microeconomic and macroeconomic sources of wealth, for misunderstanding the benefits of …

Despite mounting scholarship on the Rousseau–Smith connection, the possibility of overlap
between the Humean and Rousseauian views of commercial society has not been explored …