----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Dear List members, Thank you so much for all your interesting information about Milton Friedman, monetarism and its sources. The discussion has gone far beyond my initial enquiry. Concerning this newer vein of discussion on "origins", my (unsubstantiated) suspicion is that one of the sources of the Friedman-Brunner type of monetarism is the activity of Congressman Wright Patman. It seems to me that Patman wanted to have rules for monetary expansion in order to have an _easy money_ regime. But somehow Patman's aspirations turned out to have the opposite result in academic monetarist discussion. I wonder whether there is some systematic investigation about Wright Patman's role in the monetarist debate. Best regards Michael Ambrosi ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]