Central bank independence (CBI) has been a prominent topic for decades, but remains
relatively unexplored in the history of economic thought. Relevant literature is scarce and …

Robert Triffin became famous with his trenchant analyses of the vulnerabilities of the Bretton
Woods system. These are still at the centre of many discussions today. This article argues …

This paper aims at suggesting a new interpretation of Edwin Walter Kemmerer's quantity
theory of money as it appears in his Money and Credit Instruments in Their Relation to …

Abstract Edwin Walter Kemmerer traveled to many countries on economic missions during
his career. This article studies the process that led him to become, in the 1920s, one of the …

In 1912 Guillermo Subercaseaux (1872–1959), a professor of economics at the University of
Chile, published El Papel Moneda, translated into French in 1920 as Le Papier-Monnaie …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the state of the quantity theory in the United States prior to
the publication of Irving Fisher's The Purchasing Power of Money in 1911. We start by …

This paper investigates how Paul van Zeeland, Prime Minister in the 1930s, became one of
the most famous Belgian monetary economists. We discuss his early experiences in …

Abstract In 1911, Fisher published The Purchasing Power of Money. In chapter 13 of the first
edition and in an appendix in the second section of 1913, he introduced a rule to maintain …

This study examines the evolution of the composition of the boards of the central banks from
Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru throughout the 20th century. Although the initial …

Cet article analyse les débats autour la mise en place d'un étalon de change-or en Inde à
travers les travaux de trois économistes: Alexander Martin Lindsay (1844-1906), John …