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Though the real challenge to Keynes lay in the ‘invisible’ elements of Friedman’s counter-revolution, the subsequent monetarist-Keynesian’ debate has been conducted entirely in terms of the ‘visible’ elements, which are alternative formulations of empirical relationships that have their counterpart in the ‘Keynesian’ model.
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M. Friedman, The Counter Revolution in Monetary Theory (London: IEA, 1970) p. 24.
‘Since we regarded prices as flexible, though not “perfectly” flexible, it was natural for us to interpret the transmission mechanism in terms of relative price adjustments over a broad area rather than in terms of narrowly defined interest rates’. M. Friedman, A Theoretical Framework for Monetary Analysis, Occasional Paper 112 (New York: NBER, 1971) pp. 27–9.
A Friedman, ‘Comments on The Critics’, p. 944. The reference is to J. M. Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (London: Macmillan, 1923) p. 51.
N. Kaldor, The Scourge of Monetarism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). See the penetrating review by R. L. Harrington: ‘Monetar-isms’: Real and Imaginary — A Review Article’, Manchester School (March 1983) pp. 63–71.
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Fletcher, G.A. (1987). Monetarism II: Monetarism, Keynes and the ‘Keynesians’. In: The Keynesian Revolution and its Critics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08736-5_17
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