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Arie Arnon is Professor in the Department of ¸£Àûµ¼º½s at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He has been the founder and head of the ¸£Àûµ¼º½s and Society Program at the Van Leer Institute. Arnon coordinates the Israeli side in the Aix Group, a think tank where Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts discuss various economic aspects of the current situation, as well as possibilities open when a permanent peace agreement is reached. His areas of research include Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, the Israeli labor market, the history of economic thought, and economic aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has been a visiting scholar at Berkeley, Stanford, Penn, New School and SOAS (London). He has worked as a Senior Economist in the research department of the Bank of Israel and as a consultant to the World Bank. His latest book Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: Money, Credit and the Economy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.