Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
David Laidler

Born: August 12, 1938 (age 87)
Bio: David Ernest William Laidler is an economist who has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Known for:
- The demand for money (1969)
- Fabricating the Keynesian revolution (1997)
- Macroeconomics in retrospect (2004)
- Money and macroeconomics (1997)
- Monetarist perspectives (1982)