International Monetary Economics, 1870–1960
Between the Classical and the New Classical

This is a history of international monetary thought from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century.

M. June Flanders (Author)

9780521031851, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2006

384 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.581 kg

"It is an excellent history--she leads the reader expertly through the relevant literature, making this book mandatory reading for graduate students in international monetary economics....[T]he book is a skillful survey, and is highly recommended to graduate students or anyone else thinking of doing research in the field." David C. Colander, History of Political Economy

This is a history of international monetary thought from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It provides a comprehensive survey of the literature produced on international macroeconomics for that period. It will be of interest to teachers of and graduate students in international monetary economics, monetary theory, and the history of economic thought. Professor Flanders argues that progress in the field of international monetary economics (or in the discipline as a whole) has not been linear. Instead of writing a sequential, chronological story, she has classified the literature according to groupings of ideas and classes of models. After a brief survey of the Classical doctrines, the book covers the developments of major approaches, which are labelled Neoclassical, Late Classical, and Keynesian. The models are conceptualized in two streams: stream F encompasses formal, long-run equilibrium models, all of which emerge from a common proto-model involving the endogeneity of the money supply under fixed exchange rates. Stream P deals with policy-oriented short-run equilibrium and disequilibrium approaches. There is emphasis throughout on the varying roles assigned by the several approaches to international trade in financial assets, that is, to international capital flows.

Preface
Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction
2. The classical mainstream and the nineteenth-century monetary controversies
Part II. Stream P Part I: The Neoclassicals: 3. The beginnings of the neoclassical tradition
4. The locus classicus of the neoclassical position
5. The Macmillan Committee
6. A second diversion: Keynes and the Macmillan Committee
Part III. Stream P Part II: The Anti-Neoclassicals: 7. The anti-neoclassicals
Part IV. Stream P Part III: A Policy-Oriented Academic - Keynes: 8. Indian currency and finance: a tract on monetary reform
9. A treatise on money
10. Late Keynes: towards Bretton Woods
Part V. Stream P Part IV: Crisis: 11. The crisis writers
Part VI. Stream F Part I: The Late Classicals: 12. The late classicals
Part VII. Stream F Part II: Ohlin:13. Ohlin
Part VIII. Stream F Part III. The Keynesian Models: 14. The keynesians I
15. The keynesians II
Part IX. The Confluence: 16. Post-keynes: MMM
Ex post
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International finance [KCLF]