The Optimum Quantity of Money 1969 Milton Friedman ~ First Edition ~ Monetary Theory, Supply & Policy

Title: The Optimum Quantity of Money and Other Essays

Author: Milton Friedman

Description: First Edition. Boards in teal cloth. Previous owner's name and date written on front free endpaper, else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has large chip to upper left corner of front pane; top edge of rear panel and head of spine chipped; spine lightly faded; rubbed; in an archival mylar sleeve. vi + 296 pages.

Thirteen essays, including the first appearance of the title essay, by the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Milton Friedman (1912-2006). These essays ''bring a single coherent view of the role of money to bear on a wide variety of specific topics in monetary theory, the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena, and the conduct of monetary policy... Taken as a whole, these essays present the most comprehensive view available anywhere of the body of monetary thought developed at the leading center of monetary analysis in the world. Essential reading...'' (front flap).

Contents: 1. The Optimum Quantity of Money. 2. The Quantity Theory of Money: A Restatement. 3. Post-War Trends in Monetary Theory and Policy. 4. The Monetary Theory and Policy of Henry Simons. 5. The Role of Monetary Policy. 6. The Demand for Money: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results. 7. Interest Rates and the Demand for Money. 8. Price, Income, and Monetary Change in Three Wartime Periods. 9. The Supply of Money and Changes in Prices and Output. 10. Money and Business Cycles. 11. The Lag in Effect of Monetary Policy. 12. The Monetary Studies of the National Bureau. 13. In Defense of Destabilizing Speculation. Index.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG+
Jacket Condition: Good

Publisher: Aldine Publishing Company
Place: Chicago
Year: 1969

Keywords: economics, monetary supply, monetary theory, monetary policy,