Economic Perspectives : Further Essays on Money and Growth

## Abstract The chapters contained in this book on money and growth, including two previously unpublished chapters, brings together the work of Sir John Hicks, covering the following: the mainspring of economic growth; industrialism; monetary experience and the theory of money; expected inflation; Hawtrey; recollections and documents; capital controversies, ancient and modern; the disaster point in risk theory; and explanations and revisions. "Poets" said Shelley "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." How easy is it for economists to fall into the same delusion! That they do, on occasion, influence events is not to be denied; but that their own work is conditioned by events, which have come about quite independently of their work, they find harder to recognise. The essays that are included in this book are representative of the author's later work, which he desired to distinguish from his earlier work that has become part of an economic orthodoxy This collection of essays on money and growth brings together the work of Sir John Hicks. Including two previously unpublished essays, this collection is sure to make readers view Hicks work in a new light. A collection of essays on money and growth, bringing together the work of Sir John Hicks. It makes readers view Hicks' work in a new light.