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

18 Roger Kopplwhich is worse,” he concludes, “an inflation or overt repudiation of the promiseswhich have been implicitly given to almost everyone enrolled in the Bismarckianscheme.”All of the contributions to this volume bear an intimate relationship to Yeager’sscholarship. They cover a very broad range of topics from technical issues ofmonetary regimes or economic method, to broad issues of ethics and politicalphilosophy. This is an impressive range of topics reflecting the unusual breadth ofYeager’s scholarship. In this essay I have come far short of a complete survey ofYeager’s scholarly output. I have ignored completely his work as a translator, hisscholarly contributions to the language Interlingua, his organizational contributionsto the Union Mundial pro Interlingua, his popular writings on liberty, and so on. Itis hardly to be wondered at, then, that Yeager’s career would inspire the enthusiasmand admiration of accomplished scholars. Indeed, many contributions reflectgenuine awe in Yeager’s extraordinary career and personality. On the occasion ofhis 80th birthday, we offer these essays to Leland B. Yeager to honor him for all hehas done and all he represents. We honor him for his scholarship, his teaching, hishard work, and his great erudition. We honor him for his zeal for truth. We honorhim knowing that scholars of his caliber – persons of his caliber – are rare and thatwe have been blessed to call him teacher, colleague, mentor, friend.ReferencesBridgman, Percy W. (1955). Reflections of a Physicist. New York: Philosophical Library.Cohen, Avi J. and Geoffrey C. Harcourt (2003). Cambridge Capital Controversies: Responsefrom Avi J. Cohen and G.C. Harcourt. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17(4): 232–3.Cosmides, Leda and John Tooby (1994). Better than Rational: Evolutionary Psychologyand the Invisible Hand. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 84: 327–32.George, Henry (1886) [1966]. Protection or Free Trade? An Examination of the Tariff Question, withEspecial Regard for the Interests of Labor. New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.George, Henry (1898) [1932]. The Science of Political Economy, new edition. London: TheHenry George Foundation of Great Britain.Gigerenzer, G., P.M. Todd and the ABC Research Group (1999). Simple Heuristics That MakeUs Smart. New York: Oxford University Press.Greenfield, Robert L. and Leland B. Yeager (1983). A Laissez Faire Approach to MonetaryStability. Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 15: 302–15.Greenfield, Robert L., W. William Woolsey and Leland B. Yeager (1995). Is IndirectConvertibility Impossible? Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 27: 293–7.Horwitz, Steven (2000). Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective. New York:Routledge.Hume, David (1752) [1970]. Money. In Eugene Rotwein (ed.) David Hume: Writings onEconomics. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.Kauffman, Stuart A. (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution.Oxford: Oxford University Press.Kauffman, Stuart A. (1994). Whispers from Carnot: The Origins of Order and Principlesof Adaptation in Complex Nonequilibrium Systems. In George A. Cowan, DavidPines and David Meltzer (eds.) Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality. Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley.