The Subprime Crisis
This article offers an analysis of the causes of the subprime crisis, explaining that it is not an isolated incident and that we should concentrate our attention on the Fed’s monetary policy
Booms and Busts
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Toward a General Theory of Error Cycles
The purpose of this article is threefold. First, we challenge Mises's theory by arguing that it is not generally and apodictically valid. Therefore, it cannot be part of economic theory which
Does Austrian Business Cycle Theory Help Explain the Dot-Com Boom and Bust?
Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT), we contend, is essential to understanding the recent boom and bust cycle in the American (and, to a great extent, the global) economy.
Review of When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy. by William L. Silber
At the beginning of World War I, the US Treasury secretary closed the New York Stock Exchange to stop the sale of dollar-denominated securities.
The Austrian School in the NBER’s Business Cycle Studies
This paper is a review of Austrian School references in business cycle studies published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Hayek and the 21st Century Boom-Bust and Recession-Recovery
Hayek’s writings on business cycle theory; the seminal work of the 1930s and 1940s and the modifications he made in the 1970s after he received the Nobel Prize,
Review of Institutions in Crisis: European Perspectives on the Recession, by David Howden, ed.
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.
Review of The Hayek-Keynes Debate: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research, by John P. Cochran and Fred R. Glahe
The book brings together sources that to some Austrians may appear hardly compatible, if not inconsistent. Insiders know that there are some significant differences between the views of, say, Mises, Hayek, and Lachman
Hayek’s Theory of Money and Cycles: Retrospective and Reappraisal
That Hayek’s work on money, investment, and business cycle theory should be misunderstood and misrepresented poses nothing new.
European Business Fluctuations in the Austrian Framework
The Austrian theory mainly deals with analyzing the effects of an increased credit offer on productive structures.
