Quote of the day
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
David Laidler

Born: August 12, 1938 (age 86)
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)