James Laurence Laughlin (1850–1933)

Charles McCann and Vibha Kapuria-Foreman ()
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Chapter 7 in The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, 2022, pp 151-173 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract James Laurence Laughlin, founding head of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Chicago, was engaged in many of the most important economic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His perspectives on the gold standard and bimetallism, the quantity theory of money, and the operation of the currency and banking systems were, at the time, viewed as expert opinion which had to be confronted. As a public intellectual, he insinuated himself in many public debates and contributed enormously to the public discourse. As a teacher and department head, he had a tremendous influence on the direction of economics at Chicago, creating one of the premier departments in the country.

Keywords: J. Laurence Laughlin; Bimetallism; University of Chicago; Quantity theory; Gold standard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01775-9_7

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