Explainers.

In 1871 William Stanley Jevons published The Theory of Political Economy, which would prove to be one of the most influential books in the history of economic thought.

In a 1992 working paper for the Levy Economics Institute, economist Hyman Minsky expounded his financial instability hypothesis.

William Stanley Jevons was a British philosopher and economist who, along with Leon Walras and Carl Menger, launched the marginalist revolution in economics.

In 1862, aged only 26 or 27, William Stanley Jevons presented a paper to a meeting of the British Association that envisioned a radical transformation of the discipline of economics.

1862: Brief Account of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy. Submitted to meeting of the British Association. Published in the Journal of the Statistical Society of London in 1866.

In an April 17, 1866 speech to the House of Commons, Member of Parliament John Stuart Mill argued that Britain’s diminishing reserves of coal meant that the then governing generation, and perhaps…

In October of 1930, as the world suffered through the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes published an essay considering the long-term economic prospects of developed nations. [1]

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Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), was created by the 1970 Monetary Authority of Singapore Act.