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Comments on the Symposium on Interest and Prices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Michael Woodford
Michael Woodford
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Department of Economics, Columbia University.
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The papers prepared for this symposium cover a great deal of ground. It is a pleasure to be able to respond to them, as this provides an opportunity to try to clarify some of the aims of my book (Woodford 2003) that may have been insufficiently clear in the original work. But I shall have to restrict my attention to only a few of the most important issues raised in the various papers. I shall consider three classes of issues in particular: the methodology adopted in the book, the role of “cashless” models, and the connection between my work and the Wicksellian tradition.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 187 - 198
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2006

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