This paper aims to show how the 100% money proposal, which Irving Fisher came to
support in 1935, connects to the rest of his work on monetary instability—in particular, to his …

La crise financière mondiale de 2007-2008 a conduit à un renouvellement d'intérêt marqué
pour la proposition de réforme «100% monnaie», héritée des années 1930, qui vise à …

This feature addresses the history of economic terms and ideas. The hope is to deepen the
workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing …

We discuss the evolution of the debate on policy rules vs discretion. Doctrinal historians
place the starting point of the debate in the nineteenth-century controversy between the …

Abstract The '100% money'proposal aims at divorcing the creation of money from banking,
by requiring 100% reserves on transaction accounts. The public monetary authority would …

Abstract Milton Friedman claimed that Jacob Viner's views in the early 1930s on (a) the
monetary origins of the Great Depression and (b) the need of expansionary open-market …