Business Cycles

Arthur Hughes seeks to apply the Austrian theory of the business cycle to the recession of 1990.

Wagner charges the Austrian business cycle with “obsolescence,” and describes it as “incoherent.” What is the reason for this denunciation? It is obsolete.

In a recent study, Keeler (2001) attempts to provide historical/empirical evidence for the Austrian business cycle theory by examining the effect of interest-rate changes on various components 

Richard Cantillon was the first economist to successfully examine the cyclical nature of the capitalist economy. He lived at a time (168?–1734) when the institutions of the modern capitalist  economy 

Austrian business cycle theory has a legitimate claim to being the most authoritative explanation of the recent global financial and economic crisis. 

his paper investigates the potential systemic risks posed to the U.S. securities markets by the banking crisis during the Panic of 1907. Past studies of 1907 have focused almost exclusively on the banking crisis.

This volume brings together highly important and relevant essays from distinguished authors, all of which are firmly anchored in the tradition of the Austrian School of Economics.

The spread-model provides no point of attachment for spiral reasoning because there is no representativity assumption that forces the model agents to behave in a similar way. 

Garrison's Time and Money picks up where Hayek left off, developing a macroeconomic model based on Austrian capital theory that provides significant insights into macroeconomic phenomena. 

Markets are not efficient as that term is currently used in academic finance. Rather, markets are reflexive in that market behavior and the fundamentals reflect each other via a two-way, interactive feedback loop.