Commentary on Rashid’s “Rothbard on Money: A Critical Textual Exegesis”
There seems to be a lot less disagreement between Rothbard and Rashid than meets the latter’s eye. The biggest issue on which there is a gap separating
There seems to be a lot less disagreement between Rothbard and Rashid than meets the latter’s eye. The biggest issue on which there is a gap separating
The aim of this paper is to criticize the foundation and the relevance of the insulation argument. In what follows, I will attempt to show that: (1) The favor flexible exchange rates enjoy
As Paul Samuelson once put it: Adam Smith is dead and Keynes is dead; well—and Mises is dead, too. But Keynesianism is alive and well and back with a vengeance.
Much has been written about the quantity of money and its effects on money’s purchasing power. However, changes in the quality of money have been widely neglected.
There is no evidence in Hayek's published work that the notion of an end-state ever held any interest. Across more than 60 years of original publications, Hayek's notion of equilibrium was well-defined, dynamic
It is pretty well established within Austrian economics that the optimum quantity of money is whatever level is established at any given time.
Don Bellante and Roger W. Garrison (1988) compared two alternative explanations of monetary dynamics: those based on a vertical long-run Phillips curve and those derived from analysis of Hayekian triangles.
The present work is a doctoral dissertation written at the University of Hamburg. It deals with Mises’s work on monetary economics and business cycle theory.
The fundamental question we have to confront in the theory of monetary policy is therefore not whether money affects the real economy—yes it does, both in the short run and in the long run