David Ernest William Laidler FRSC (born 12 August 1938, North Shields, England) is an English/Canadian economist who has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism.
[1][2] He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The book has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
His continued work on the demand for money through the 1990s and into the 21st century (with William B. P. Robson) led to his receiving the Donner Prize in 2004 for Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991, published by the C.D.
He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1982 and served as president of the Canadian Economic Association, 1987–88.