Belling the cat: Eli F. Heckscher on the gold standard as a discipline device
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Keywords
Heckscher; time-consistent policy; devaluation; deflation; gold standard;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2011-06-25 (Central Banking)
- NEP-HPE-2011-06-25 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MON-2011-06-25 (Monetary Economics)
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