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Timberlake Jr., R. Methodological Considerations in Demand-for-Money Construction. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 16(3), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.16.3.381
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Timberlake Jr., Richard H. (1983): Methodological Considerations in Demand-for-Money Construction, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 16, iss. 3, 381-393, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.16.3.381
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Methodological Considerations in Demand-for-Money Construction

Timberlake Jr., Richard H.

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 16 (1983), Iss. 3 : pp. 381–393

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Timberlake Jr., Richard H.

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Abstract

Methodological Considerations in Demand-for-Money Construction

This paper challenges the logic, the utility, and the theoretical consistency of constructing a demand for money that uses interest rates as the independent variable. The classical economists from Mill to Pigou saw money in a framework where the independent variable was the inversion of an index of money prices. Their demand for money thus had the same methodological constraints - tastes and real incomes - as the demand for any conventional good or service. The Keynesian construction in the General Theory buried the price level in the spending aggregates (income, consumption and investment), and posited a speculative demand-for-money that assumed one or another of various interest rates as the independent variable. It thereby obscured and de-emphasized the effect of money on prices. Current textbook treatment of the demand for money is almost entirely along Keynesian lines; that is, it is couched in terms of interest rates while the classical construction using an inversion of money prices is ignored. The reason the Keynesian concept prevails is because it offers the simplification of putting money into a market so that a price (interest rate) may be seen. In fact, as Leland Yeager has observed, money to be money must be in all markets. And the only way to obtain a price for an item that enters all markets in which money prices are determined is by use of an aggregated abstraction, i.e., an index number. The conclusion is that the utility of monetary analysis to the economist is maximized when the constraints surrounding the demand-for-money function are compatible with those assumed for the demands of ordinary goods and services

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Richard H. Timberlake: Methodological Considerations\rin Demand-for-Money Construction 381
I. The Reason Why 381
II. The Demand for Money as a Function of Prices 381
III. The Demand for Money as a Function of Interest Rates 383
IV. Some Methodological Difficulties with the Liquidity Preference Demand-For-Money 385
V. Current Textbook Treatment of the Demand-for-Money 387
VI. The \"Market\" for Money 389
References 391
Zusammenfassung: Methodologische Betrachtungen über Geldnachfrage-Konzepte 391
Summary: Methodological Considerations in Demand-for-Money Construction 392
Résumé: Considérations méthodologiques sur les conceptions de demande monétaire 392

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