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Paul F. Cwik

The Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT) has been criticized for not being a true theory of the business cycle. The main emphasis of the ABCT has been on the theory of the upper-turning point

The editors have decided to devote the bulk of Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 2002 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics to articles by F.A. Hayek, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, and Frédéric Bastiat. 

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

oth the establishment of property rights and their violation spring from actions: acts of appropriation and expropriation. However, in addition to a physical appearance, actions also have an internal, subjective aspect. 

Peter G. Klein

Peter Klein focuses here on the financial-market entrepreneur — what Rothbard (1962, 1985) calls the capitalist-entrepreneur — to outline some features of an Austrian theory of corporate governance

Salim Rashid

The law of one price is one of the most basic laws of economics and yet it is a law observed in the breach. That a given commodity can have only one price, except for the briefest of disequilibrium transitions

Randall G. Holcombe

In the decades following World War II, when the scope of government was increasing dramatically, Alan Peacock was one of those rare British economists who argued for less government.

Adrián Osvaldo Ravier

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. 

Young Back Choi

If the unfounded optimism about the gains from unification can be deflated in the South, there is a better chance for peace. This would make the South Koreans more cautious

Alexander Tabarrok

Capitalism has surprisingly little to say on entrepreneurship or other typically Austrian and Objectivist themes. Reisman is a strong proponent of capitalism and I do not think any objective reader would infer from my statement that Reisman is a socialist.

Mateusz Machaj

In his important contribution, Jörg Guido Hülsmann (2003) attempted to redefine the method of economic science. According to him most economic laws are counterfactual in their nature

John P. Cochran

Free banking is a process where the market makes the ultimate judgment on where to draw the line between money as a present good and money as a future good.

Lucas M. Engelhardt

Andrew Young (2009) suggests a capital-based theory for secular growth that is consistent with Austrian capital theory. He argues that investment in intangible capital 

William Barnett II

The first sections of this paper consider, respectively, the following two problems that arise when dimensions are not correctly included in economic models: 

Bogdan Glăvan

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 

Daniel Sutter

Laband and Tollison (2000) warn that specialized Austrian journals encourage excessive within-group communication at the expense of exchanges of ideas with the broader economics profession.

William L. Anderson

Couch and Shughart’s book brings together a number of public-choice studies by other authors which have appeared in various journals, but have never been formally connected to each other in a single book. 

Mark Thornton

This book is a collection of ten previously published essays that address some of the most important questions of twentieth-century America.

Jeffrey M. Herbener

George Selgin and Lawrence White have sought to tie their modern free banking school to the views of Ludwig von Mises. Whatever the validity of their own views on the gold standard

John P. Cochran

Complete with an extensive new preface, the republication of Larry Sechrest’s Free Banking is well-timed. The new preface is an important contribution to the ongoing debate within Austrian circles

Larry J. Sechrest

Among all those goods which have been offered as examples of public goods, national defense and lighthouses have been among the most frequently cited.