Gunnar, Marshall here deserves a "full" quote: The chief use of pure mathematics in economic questions seems to be in helping a person to write down quickly,...
Worth noting that Adam Smith managed to make all his ideas clear without using mathematical notation. If people must use symbols, I wish they would provide a...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Sep 3, 2005 10:59 am
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050905 Gardiner to friends With the publisher's agreement the title of my new book will be "The Evolution of Creditary Structures and Controls" Geoffrey...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Sep 5, 2005 3:28 pm
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Congratulations! The "evolution" of "creditary structures" - especially after World War II - is a fascinating subject. As noted on earlier occasions, it has...
I attach a review of the Innes book, from Review of Credit and State Theories of Money: The Contributions of A.Mitchell Innes, edited by L. Randall Wray...
Hudsonmi@...
Sep 14, 2005 1:31 pm
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Individual Stockholder, R.I.P. By JOHN C. BOGLE October 3, 2005; Wall St. Journal, Page A16 The amazing disappearance of the individual stockholder as the...
Hudsonmi@...
Oct 3, 2005 9:49 pm
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051004 Gardiner to Hudson Dear Michael, Thanks a million for your two messages. I can incorporate the facts from both of them, even at this late stage of...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Oct 4, 2005 6:56 am
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Dear Geoffrey, I'm sure that you can ask for a variance for your chapter quotes. I like them, and I use them. Tell them that it will help sales in America. I...
Hudsonmi@...
Oct 4, 2005 1:09 pm
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Gunnar, Cassirer is an old favourite of mine - a very thorough idealist . Did you ever read this book - with a preface by Albert Einstein ? (which I have...
Arno. I bought one or two of Cassirer's books back in the 1970s but, after taking a quick look at his approach, put them aside. Now that you raise the...
Arno. I just had the following exchange with somebody on an Internet Forum. *** In response to the other party's suggestion that "proof" need not be predicated...
Dear Gang: We think we have problems!!! Zimbabwe must be one of the most mismanaged semi-developed economies the world has ever seen. Chris Today I received...
FYI. Arno ... From: Stephen Zarlenga To: AMI Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 4:53 AM Subject: Report on the AMI 2005 Monetary Reform Conference Dear Friends...
051031 Gardiner to Gang Bernanke's appointment has publicised his view that there is too much saving, a line we have suggested for a long time. It has been...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Oct 31, 2005 1:05 pm
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In a message dated 10/31/05 8:06:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Dear Geoffrey, Gus Kelley reprinted Knapp's book. I used to have a few copies. I think I have...
Hudsonmi@...
Oct 31, 2005 2:51 pm
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Geoffrey: The concept of "saving" remains as confused as ever! And makes strange bed-fellows of the likes of Washington Consensus Critic Stiglitz and...
Michael: Unfortunately, Bernanke referred to China and oither central banks as doing the "saving" by recycling surplus dollars. Henry Liu quickly pointed out...
For: The level of Entrepreneurial Profit in the Economy - and much else - is a function of "Savings" in 2. The Supply of "Savings" in 1 is constrained by the...
Geoffrey and Michael, I wrote, concerning German Idealism in philosophy ( (Leibniz) Kant, Fichte, Hegel etc. + List): "The focus of this tradition on ideas and...
Dear Arno, I'd say the post-Keynesian approach and the Innes approach CONVERGE with the idealist tradition. My own views of Mesopotamia are based on my ...
Hudsonmi@...
Nov 1, 2005 12:54 pm
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Arno: yes sounds correct, altho I don't really know german philosophy. See also Ingham's recent book, which does deal with that. L. Randall Wray Professor of...
Wray, Randall
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Nov 1, 2005 2:00 pm
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Michael, ... Agreed, but to understand something well one has to go for the roots. Along with Gunnar I have for a long time had an interest in epistemology in...
Well, Arno, I guess a Marxist would call my approach idealist. It is idealist in the sense that the monetary and financial system is Autonomous from the ...
Hudsonmi@...
Nov 2, 2005 12:54 pm
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Dear Michael: Re the following: I'd say the post-Keynesian approach and the Innes approach CONVERGE with the idealist tradition. Comment: Below is an exchange...
051110 Gardiner to Gang and Michael Moore The new version of Towards True Monetarism, now given the more academic title of The Evolution of Creditary...