The Economic Thought of Henry Calvert Simons

G.R. Steele is Reader in Economics at Lancaster University. His research interests include the economics and political philosophy of Friedrich Hayek, and he has pursued a general inquiry into the development of ideas relating to problems of a money economy. In 2007, he delivered the F. A. Hayek Memorial Lecture, Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute. In 2010 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Economics, Prague, when he delivered the František Čuhel Memorial Lecture, Conference on Political Economy, at the Cevro Institute.

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Libertarian Philosophy 3. Economics and the Chicago School 4. The Chicago Plan: The Background 5. The Chicago Eight, Plus Four, Plus One 6. The Chicago Plan 7. Monetary Rules 8. Monetarism and Fiscal Monetarism 9. Business, Bankers and Bubbles 10. Taxation 11. Islamic Banking and Finance 12. Final Comments