Hawtrey’s Social Philosophy: Welfare and Value

Hawtrey is, first and foremost, widely known today as an economist in Cambridge, who developed a theory of monetary economic fluctuations. Different from Pigou’s theory focused on psychological factors and Robertson’s one focused on real factors, Hawtrey grasped economic fluctuations as purely monetary phenomenon caused by the behavior of banks. He is also widely known as an economist, who provided the theoretical basis for the so-called Treasury View.