Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager

Preface and acknowledgmentssponsoring the two sessions honoring Yeager. I thank Steve Caudill and RogerGarrison for abundant and energetic help in arranging them and planning theevening reception. The evening reception was entirely the product of their efforts.Steve Caudill arranged for Auburn University, the University of Virginia, andthe Ludwig von Mises Institute to fund the evening reception for Yeager. RogerGarrison edited and printed the manuscript version of this book presented toYeager on that occasion. This job included the burdensome transformation ofthe Word files I sent him into elegantly formatted pdf files. Roger Garrison alsoprovided the photograph of the frontispiece, which he arranged to have takenspecifically for use in this book. Figure 12.1 is reproduced from Roger’s book Timeand Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure (2001, Routledge).I thank the Eastern Economic Association for permission to reprint Chapter 2,which, apart from some minor changes, originally appeared as Breit, William,Kenneth G. Elzinga, and Thomas D. Willett, “The Yeager Mystique: The Polymathas Teacher, Scholar and Colleague,” Eastern Economic Journal, Spring 1996,22(2): 215–29.I thank all the contributors to this volume for comments on my introductoryessay and for their prompt and professional delivery of papers that, in my opinion,are of uniformly high quality. Finally, I owe further thanks to Roger Garrison forproviding encouragement, lots of good advice, and close supervision of my efforts.xiv