ECONOMICS331—MONEY
Reading List—Winter Quarter, 1970
(Note: Readings marked with an asterisk(*) cover the essential substantive material.)
I. IntroductoryMaterial
*MiltonFriedman, The Optimum Quantity of Money and Other Essays, (Aldine,1968), Chap. 1.
*MiltonFriedman, The Quantity Theory, International Encyclopaedia of theSocial Sciences (reprints on reserve).
David Hume, “OfMoney,” “Of Interest,” in Essays and Treatises.
H. G. Johnson,“Monetary Theory and Keynesian Economics,” reprinted in W. Smith and R. Teiger(eds.) Readings in Money, National Income, and Stabilization Policy.
D. H.Robertson, Money.
II. The QuantityEquation
*IrvingFisher, The Purchasing Power of Money (Macmillan, 1913),chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8.
*J. M.Keynes, Tract on Monetary Reform (1924), chap. 2; chap. iii,sec. 1.
*Wesley C.Mitchell, Business Cycles, The Problem and Its Setting (NewYork, 1927), pp. 128-39.
*A. C. Pigou,“The Value of Money” in Lutz, F. A., and Mints, L. W. (eds.) Readingsin Monetary Theory.
AlfredMarshall, Official Papers, “Evidence before the Indian CurrencyCommittee (1889),” questions 11758-62 (pp. 267-69); “Evidence before the Goldand Silver Commission (1887-88).” questions 9629-86 (pp. 34-53); testimony toRoyal Commission on The Depression of Trade and Industry (1886), answers toquestion 8(i), pp. 7-15.
HenryThornton, An Enquiry into the Nature and Effect of the Paper Credit ofGreat Britain (1802), Library of Economics edition (Allen and Irwin,1939), chaps. iii and xi.
JacobViner, Studies in the Theory of International Trade (Harpers,1937), pp. 119-289.
III. The Demandfor Money
*Phillip Cagan,“The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation,” in Studies in the QuantityTheory of Money, esp. 11, 25-35 and 86-91.
*MiltonFriedman, “The Quantity Theory of Money: A Restatement” in Studies inthe Quantity Theory of Money, ed., M. Friedman.
*J. R. Hicks, “ASuggestion for Simplifying the Theory of Money,” Readings in MonetaryTheory.
*H. G. Johnson,“Monetary Theory and Policy,” American Economic Review (June,1962), Part II.
*J. M.Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,chaps. 13 and 15.
Maurice Allais,“A Restatement of the Quantity Theory of Money,” American EconomicReview(December, 1966), pp. 1123-57.
W. J. Baumol,“The Transactions Demand for Cash: An Inventory Theoretic Approach,” QuarterlyJournal of Economics (November, 1952).
Karl Brunner andAllan H. Meltzer, “Predicting Velocity: Implications for Theory andPolicy,” Journal of Finance (May, 1963), pp. 319-54.
Karl Brunner andAllan H. Meltzer, “Some Further Investigations of Demand and Supply Functionsfor Money,” Journal of Finance (May, 1964).
Gregory C. Chow,“On the Long-run and Short-run Demand for Money,” Journal of PoliticalEconomy(April, 1966), pp. 111-31.
John V. Deaver,“The Chilean Inflation and the Demand for Money,” unpublished Ph.D.dissertation (The University of Chicago, Department of Economics, Winter,1961).
EdgarFeige, The Demand for Liquid Assets: A Temporal Cross-Section Analysis (Prentice-Hall,1964).
Milton Friedman,“The Demand for Money: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results,” Journalof Political Economy (August, 1959), pp. 327-51.
H. G. Johnson,“Recent Developments in Monetary Theory,” Essays in Monetary Economics.
David Laidler,“Some Evidence on the Demand for Money,” Journal of Political Economy (February,1966), pp. 55-68.
H. A. Latane,“Cash Balances and the Interest Rate—A Pragmatic Approach,” Review ofEconomics and Statistics (November, 1954) and (November, 1960).
Allan H.Meltzer, “The Demand for Money: The Evidence from the Time Series,” Journalof Political Economy (June, 1963).
Merton H. Millerand Daniel Orr, “A Model of the Demand for Money by Firms,” QuarterlyJournal of Economics, LXXX (August, 1966), 413-35.
George R.Morrison, Liquidity Preferences of Commercial Banks (Universityof Chicago Press, 1966).
Joan Robinson,“The Rate of Interest,” Econometrica, Vol. 19 (1951), reprinted aschap 1 of The Rate of Interest and Other Essays.
James Tobin,“Liquidity Preference and Monetary Policy,” Review of Economics andStatistics, Vol. 19 (May, 1947), 130-31.
James Tobin,“Liquidity Preference as Behavior Toward Risk,” Review of EconomicStudies (August, 1956), pp. 241-47.
James Tobin,“The Interest Elasticity of Transactions Demand for Cash,” Review ofEconomics and Statistics (August, 1956).
Clark Warburton,“Monetary Velocity and Monetary Policy,” and Tobin’s rejoinder, Reviewof Economic Statistics, XXX (November, 1948), 310-17.
IV. The Supplyof Money (covered mostly in Econ. 330)
*Milton Friedmanand Anna J. Schwartz, “Appendix B: Proximate Determinants of the Nominal Stockof Money,” from A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960.
*H. G. Johnson,“Monetary Theory and Policy,” sec. 3.
PhillipCagan, Determinants and Effects of Changes in the Stock of Money,1875-1960 (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1968).
Phillip Cagan,“The Demand for Currency Relative to the Total Money Supply,” Journalof Political Economy (August, 1958).
William Dewald,“Free Reserves, Total Reserves, and Monetary Control,” Journal ofPolitical Economy (April, 1963).
MiltonFriedman, A Program for Monetary Stability, chap. ii.
A. G. Hart, “The‘Chicago’ Plan of Banking Reform,” Readings in Monetary Theory.
A. J.Meigs, Free Reserves and the Money Supply (University ofChicago Press, 1962).
Lloyd W.Mints, A History of Banking Theory, pp. 9-12, 29-35, 217-22,247-57, 265-87.
George Tolley,“Providing for Growth of the Money Supply,” Journal of PoliticalEconomy (Dec., 1957), pp. 465-85.
U.S. Board ofGovernors of the Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Systems Purposes andFunction.
Knut Wicksell,“The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices,” Economic Journal,171 (June, 1907), 213-20
V. Liquidity andFinancial Intermediaries
*Phillip Cagan,“Why Do We Use Money in Open Market Operations,” Journal of PoliticalEconomy(February, 1958).
*Roland N.McKean, “Liquidity and a National Balance Sheet,” Readings in MonetaryTheory.
J. G. Gurley,“Liquidity and Financial Institutions in the Postwar Period,” Study Paper No.14, Joint Economic Committee, January, 1960.
J. G. Gurley andE. S. Shaw, Money in a Theory of Finance.
H. Makower andJ. Marschak, “Assets, Prices and Monetary Theory,” Readings in PriceTheory.
Alvin Marty,“Gurley and Shaw on Money in a Theory of Finance,” Journal of PoliticalEconomy(February, 1961).
Edward Simmons,“The Relative Liquidity of Money and Other Things,” Readings inMonetary Theory.
VI. The MonetaryStandard and International Monetary Arrangements
*”Conditions of InternationalMonetary Equilibrium,” Session at 1962 meeting of American EconomicAssociation, with papers by H. G. Johnson, Richard E. Caves, and Peter B.Kenen, and Discussion by J. Marcus Fleming, Harry C. Eastman, and J. HerbertFurth, American Economic Review (May, 1963), pp. 112-46.
*MiltonFriedman, “Commodity Reserve Currency” and “The Case for Flexible ExchangeRates,” Essays in Positive Economics.
*LloydMints, Monetary Policy for a Competitive Society, chaps. 4 and 5.
Frank W.Fetter, Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy, 1797-1875 (HarvardUniversity Press, 1965).
Milton Friedmanand Robert V. Roosa, The Balance of Payments: Free versus FixedExchange Rates, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,1967.
H. G. Johnson, InternationalTrade and Economic Growth, chaps. 6, 7.
H. G. Johnson,“The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates, 1969,” Review ofFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, (June, 1969).
J. M.Keynes, Tract on Monetary Reform, chap. iii, secs. 2, 3, 4; chaps.iv and v (*especially chap. iii, sec. 2; chap. iv, sec. 2).
EgonSohmen, Flexible Exchange Rates (University of Chicago Press,1961).
VII. The Processof Adjustment: Inflation, Business Cycles
*Milton Friedmanand Anna J. Schwartz, “Money and Business Cycles,” Supplement to Reviewof Economics and Statistics (February, 1963), containing proceedingsof Conference on Monetary Economics. Also, comments by H. Minsky, A. Okun, andC. Warburton.
Phillip Cagan,“The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation,” Studies in the QuantityTheory of Money.
MiltonFriedman, Dollars and Deficits (Prentice-Hall, 1968), chaps.1, 4, and 5.
Milton Friedman,“The Inflationary Gap,” in Essays in Positive Economics.
Milton Friedman,“The Monetary Studies of the National Bureau,” in The National BureauEnters Its Forty-fifth Year, 44th Annual Report, NationalBureau of Economic Research, June, 1964, pp. 7-25.
Milton Friedmanand Anna J. Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States,1867-1960, esp. chapter 7.
Arnold C.Harberger, “The Dynamics of Inflation in Chile,” in C. Christ, etal., Measurement in Economics (Stanford University Press, 1964).
Eugene M.Lerner, “Inflation in the Confederacy, 1861-65,” Studies in theQuantity Theory of Money.
Clark Warburton,“The Misplaced Emphasis in Contemporary Business-Fluctuation Theory,” Readingsin Monetary Theory.