Peter Ireland Brings Milton Friedman’s Framework and William Barnett’s Theory of Monetary Aggregation Together

In a position paper prepared for the November 20 meeting of the Shadow Open Market Committee, available at

http://irelandp.com/papers/somc201211.pdf

Peter Ireland brings together Milton Friedman’s quantity-theoretic framework and William Barnett’s theory of monetary aggregation to interpret and evaluate recent Federal Reserve strategies for conducting monetary policy with interest rates at their zero lower bound.