The rhetoric of Friedman's quantity theory manifesto

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-220

  Mayer, Thomas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Friedman; Monetarism; Quantity theory; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994483818     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501789700000015     Document Type: Article

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