Bagehot’s classical money view: a reconstruction

Perry Mehrling

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2024, vol. 31, issue 5, 730-743

Abstract: Bagehot is difficult for modern economists to read with understanding, for three reasons. He was a classical economist not neoclassical, his orientation was global not national, and most importantly his intellectual formation was as a practicing country banker not an academic. This paper adopts all three perspectives, and uses this frame to reinterpret his mature work, both Lombard Street and the unfinished Economic Studies, as the origin of the key currency tradition which continues as a minority view in modern economics.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2024.2329050

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