IN MEMORY OF BRUCE SMITH

Abstract

Bruce Smith was a brilliant economist who made important contributions in several fields, most notably monetary and financial economics, monetary history, economic growth, business cycle theory, and development economics. Bruce was a prolific author with nearly 100 published papers and about a dozen unpublished papers. I will try in this short article to describe his way of doing economics and being an economist. Even though Bruce's research agenda was wide, his distinctive style was clear on every page of his writings.