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

254 Indexprivate property 107–8; see also marketeconomypublic choice, empirical research:approaches to 70–2; improvement of76–9; low quality of 72–3public policy, Yeager, L. B. views 210–11;see also utilitarianismQuesnay, F. 2Rabin, A. 166, 171Rand, A., objectivism 32–3Ricardo, D. 127, 132; Principles of PoliticalEconomy and Taxation 128–30Robertson, D. 3Roepke, W. 1savings 143; case scenario 144–7; indirectconvertibility 147–8; see also moneySay, J. B. 126–7, 131–2; Traite d’EconomiePolitique (Treatise on Political Economy) 128Schlesinger, J. 35Schnadt, N. 9Science of Political Economy, The (George, H.) 5Shah, P. 172Simon, J., population density 222–3, 233–4Slovenian monetary reform 10–11, 161–2;conversion process 156–7; governmentcredibility 154–5; inflation 159–61;introduction of new currency 155–6;popular support 157; Slovenianindependence 153–4; stabilization158–9; Yugoslavian monetary conditionspre-reform 152–3Smith, A. 17Snowden, B., quotes 127social cooperation; in public policy 210–11,218; use of market systems 223–4, 235–6sociology of economics 66–8; empiricalresearch 69–72; example of a badregression 74–5; publication of papers 79Taylor, C. N., “The Impact of Bad Writingin Economics” (Economic Inquiry) 66,74–5, 80technique reswitching 186–7, 189, 194–6,203–5; see also capitalTheory of Money and Credit, The (Mises, L. von)167Thomas Jefferson Center for Studies inPolitical Economy and Social Philosophy(University of Virginia): formation 36–8;operation of program 38–40; see alsoVirginia Political EconomyTintner, G., quote 69Traite d’Economie Politique (Treatise on PoliticalEconomy) (Say, J. B.) 128Tuerck, David 2Tullock, G. 7, 14, 17–18; part in Virginiaprogram 37–8, 40; personal appreciationof Yeager, L. B. 45–7unemployment relief 243–4; see also welfarestateutilitarianism: and policy espousal 215–19;Yeager, L. B., views on 14–15, 209–11,213, 215Vanberg, V., Freiheit und wettbewerblicheOrdnung (Freedom and Competitive Order)100–3Veblen, T., quote 87Vining, R. 35, 40, 42Virginia Political Economy 34, 42–3;appointment of staff at University ofVirginia Economics Faculty 35–6, 38;constitutional political economy 40–2;origins 34–5; see also Thomas JeffersonCenter for Studies in Political Economyand Social Philosophy (University ofVirginia)wage/price flexibility, classical economists128–31Walter Eucken and his Œuvre (Gehrken, L.)100Walras, L 2wars 242–3; see also ethnic conflictwelfare state 17–18; background 242;future problems 248–50; medicalprovision 247–8; pension system and theblack economy 244–7; unemployment/aid to the poor 243–4Whittaker, J. 9“Wicksell Process, The” 169–71; see alsomonetary disequilibrium theoryWillett, T. D. 1Yeager, L. B. 21–2, 32–3; appointment toUniversity of Virginia 35–6; aversion totelephones 29–30; capital theory 13–14;chairman of department 30; connoisseurof wine 29; contractarianism 15–16,211–13; definition of economics 223;dislike of small talk 25–7; earlypublications 1–2; ex-students’ quotes22–4, 26–8; foreign language skills 30–2;free trade 1–3; generosity 27–8; inflation