Tim Congdon

Professor Tim Congdon CBE was on the staff of The Times from 1973 to 1976, where he wrote in favour of money targets. Most of his career was as an economist in the City of London, but he has been a visiting professor with a teaching role at three universities. He is the founder of the Institute of International Monetary Research at the University of Buckingham.

Articles

Economics

There is still no alternative to monetarism

The dawn of civilisation in the fourth millennium BC was associated with urbanisation and the emergence of writing, and it was made possible by specialisation and the division of labour. People ceased to live only on what they produced, but instead sold some of their produce in order to buy consumables from others. This created […]