Samuelson Friedman
by Nicholas Wapshott · first published 2020
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…hard as I once did. Not even during the 1980 heydays of right-wing economic thinking under Thatcher and Reagan did anyone bother with monetarism, certainly Paul Volcker didn't. A few chapters on this in Samuelson Friedman by Nicholas Wapshott: * https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393285185 (His book Keynes Hayek is also good.)
on “The Great Inflation” ↗…Delong. More economic ideas stuff in Value(s): building a better world for all by Mark Carney (ran the Banks of Canada and England). Also Waphsott's Keynes Hayek: the clash that defined modern economics and Samuelson Friedman: the battle over the free market. The currency of politics: the political theory of money from Aristotle to Keynes by Sefan Eich, Money: the true story of a made-up thing by Jacob Goldstein, and The…
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