Los Errores de la Vieja Economí­a, by Juan Ramón Rallo

Volume 16, No.1 (Spring 2013)

The Austrian School of economics has provided the world with devastating critics of Keynes’s magnum opus The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (TGT) for a long time. Friedrich A. von Hayek, Jacques Rueff, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Lachmann, Ludwig von Mises, and William Hutt have already provided important arguments against Keynes and Keynesianism.

Free-Banking and Financial Stability in Peru

Volume 16, No. 2 (Summer 2013)

The theory of free banking establishes that free competition in note issue decreases the probability of financial instability and currency depreciation. This article analyzes the Peruvian experience between 1862 and 1878 and shows that, consistent with the theory; free banking did not lead to financial instability. On the contrary, government intervention in the banking sector contributed to the expansion of paper money and to the decline in the ability of banks to face the demand for specie.

Review of The Economics of Edwin Chadwick: Incentives Matter, by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and Edward O. Price III

Volume 16, No. 2 (Summer 2013) 

Authors, Ekelund and Price have produced an engrossing and informative study of the economic life and times of Edwin Chadwick. Scholars interested in economic policy and reform, the history of industrialization, and the history of economic thought will find much of interest here.