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Throughout his distinguished and productive career as a monetary (and monetarist) economist, David Laidler has paid close attention to the history of monetary economics, because of both the intrinsic pleasure and satisfaction from such an intellectual pursuit and his deep conviction that an economist is a better economist for having historical perspective on the current state of the discipline and for knowing more than the latest crop of fashionable journal articles. As he remarked in praise of an eminent contemporary.
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Dimand, R.W. (2010). David Laidler’s Contributions to the History of Monetary Economics. In: Leeson, R. (eds) David Laidler’s Contributions to Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248410_4
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