Arie Arnon is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ben Gurion University (Israel); an Associate Fellow of the Truman Institute, Hebrew University; and the Israeli coordinator of the Aix Group. Since 2007 Arnon has coordinated the Thomas Guggenheim Program on the History of Economic Thought at Ben Gurion University. He works mainly in the field of history of economic thought, covering monetary theory and macroeconomics. His publications include "Thomas Tooke: Pioneer of Monetary Theory" (1991) and "Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: Money, Credit and the Economy" (2011), which received the Best Book Award from ESHET - the European Society for the History of Economic Thought - in 2012.