Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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)