Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149728 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2015-01
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
Translation of old economic doctrines into new technical frameworks led the profession to lose a valid theory of monetary non-neutrality. The theory relates to how additional money diffuses through the economy after entering at different points. Diffusion takes time, redistributes resources, and changes relative prices. This theory of the non-neutrality of money was introduced into economics by David Hume, among others, but it has since disappeared from the leading conversations on monetary non-neutrality. However, the disappearance was not caused by any theoretical or empirical weakness. Using Lucas's Nobel lecture as my point of departure, I argue that it disappeared because it did not fit into the popular technical frameworks.
Subjects: 
non-neutrality of money
Robert Lucas
David Hume
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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