Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager
Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the
Virginia School of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan
and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement.
A number of top class contributors have here been brought together to produce a
festschrift in Yeagers honor edited by Roger Koppl, and including the aforementioned
Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, David Colander, Deirdre McCloskey and Roger Garrison.
Table of Contents
Contributors Preface and Acknowledgement
1. A Zeal for the Truth
2. The Yeager Mystique: A Profile of the Scholar as Teacher and Colleague
3. The Virginia Renaissance in Political Economy: The 1960s Revisited
4. Leland, A Personal Appreciation
5. Monopoly Politics and Its Unsurprising Effects
6. Good Ideas and Bad Regressions: The Sad State of Empirical Work in Public Choice
7. Pluralism, Formalism and American Economics
8. Lelands Favourite Economists
9. The Genesis of an Idea: Classical Economics and the Birth of Monetary Disequilibrium
Theory
10. The Macroeconomics of Money, Saving, and Investment
11. No-Name Money
12. Monetary Disequilibrium Theory and Austrian Macroeconomics: Further Thoughts on a
Synthesis
13. Reflections on Reswitching and Roundaboutness
14. Leland Yeagers Utilitarianism as a Guide to Public Policy
15. Ethnic Conflict and the Economics of Social Cooperation: Reflections on a Difficult
Problem
16. The Legacy of Bismarck
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272 pages
