2012-2 Milton Friedman's Contributions to Macroeconomics and Their Nfluei Nce David Laidler
Western University Scholarship@Western Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Economics Working Papers Archive Papers 2012 2012-2 Milton Friedman's Contributions to Macroeconomics and Their nflueI nce David Laidler Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/economicsepri_wp Part of the Economics Commons Citation of this paper: Laidler, David. "2012-2 Milton Friedman's Contributions to Macroeconomics and Their nflueI nce." Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers, 2012-2. London, ON: Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario (2012). Milton Friedman's Contributions to Macroeconomics and Their Influence by David Laidler Working Paper # 2012-2 February 2012 Economic Policy Research Institute EPRI Working Paper Series Department of Economics Department of Political Science Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, N6A 5C2 Canada This working paper is available as a downloadable pdf file on our website http://economics.uwo.ca/centres/epri/ Milton Friedman's Contributions to Macroeconomics and their Influence* by David Laidler JEL Classifications: B22, E20, E30, E40, E50 Keywords: Friedman, macroeconomics, Keynes, Keynesianism. monetarism, money, inflation, cycle, depression, monetary policy, consumption. Abstract. Milton Friedman's contributions to and influence on macroeconomics are discussed, beginning with his work on the consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War II "Keynesian" consensus in the area. His inter-related analyses of the dynamics of monetary policy's transmission mechanism, the case for a money growth rule, and the expectations augmented Phillips curve are then taken up, followed by a discussion of his influence not only directly on the monetarist policy experiments of the early 1980s, but also less directly on the regimes that underlay the "great moderation" that broke down in the crisis of 2007-2008.
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