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Johnson, H. Comment on Mayer on Monetarism. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 9(2), 145-153. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.9.2.145
Johnson, Harry G. "Comment on Mayer on Monetarism" Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 9.2, 1976, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.9.2.145
Johnson, Harry G. (1976): Comment on Mayer on Monetarism, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 9, iss. 2, 145-153, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.9.2.145

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Comment on Mayer on Monetarism

Johnson, Harry G.

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 9 (1976), Iss. 2 : pp. 145–153

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Johnson, Harry G.

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Comment on Mayer on Monetarism

Discussion of monetarism belongs to a recently passed era of U.S. policy debates and runs the danger of formalization. Of Mayer’s“ propositions, the crucial one is the assumption of a stable demand for money which differentiates monetarism from both Keynesian theory and the old quantity theory (unstable velocity) that Keynes attacked. Classical quantity theory went through two phases; the “neutrality of money” phase, designed to clear the way for real general equilibrium analysis; and “the conditions for money equilibrium analysis”, of disturbances to real and monetary equilibrium in a monetary economy. Prewar II theorists never regarded policy changes in money supply as a destabilizing factor, and treated expectational change in money demand as involving instability of velocity; to be offset by policy. Modern quantity theorists instead make policy a chief disturber of equilibrium, in the face of a stable demand for money.