Thomas Mayer is emeritus professor of economics, University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953. His fields are monetary policy and methodology of economics. He is the author of Monetary Policy in the United States, Permanent Income, Wealth and Consumption, Intermediate Macroeconomics (with David Rowan), The Structure of Monetarism (with others), Money, Banking and the Economy (with James Duesenberry and Robert Aliber), Revealing Monetary Policy, Monetarism and Macroeconomic Policy, Truth versus Precision in Economics, Doing Economic Research, and Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States.