Economists who stressed money, interest and expectations in explaining output and prices, from Wicksell and Fisher to Friedman, Schwartz and Lucas. An economist belongs here when the cited article ties the person to monetary theory, monetarism or rational expectations. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Monetarist and Monetary Economists, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Milton Friedman (Wikipedia)
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Milton Friedman ( ; July 31, 1912, November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.
Wikipedia: Anna Schwartz
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Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced SHWORTS; November 11, 1915, June 21, 2012) was an American economist and monetary historian who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research for more than seven decades.
Irving Fisher (Wikipedia)
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He was also a pioneer in the rigorous study of intertemporal choice in markets, which led him to develop a theory of capital and interest rates.
Knut Wicksell (Wikipedia)
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He made contributions to theories of population, value, capital and money, as well as methodological contributions to econometrics.
History of Economic Thought Website: Thomas Gresham profile
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Gresham stressed the importance of stable coinage for export competitiveness and the management of public debt.
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