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.