The Source of my Anti-Monetarism

Alex Tabarrok forwards Paul Krugman's citations of the late Paul Samuelson on the ineffectiveness of monetary policy, due to high substitutability between Federal reserve liabilities and other assets. Alex says that Samuelson sounds like me.

Clearly, the causality runs from Samuelson writing in 1948 to me writing 60 years later, not the other way around. Krugman and I both breathed the MIT air, and while it was not Samuelson himself who conveyed the anti-monetarist view, Franco Modigliani was a worthy expositor.

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