Free Banking and Credit Creation: Implications for Business Cycle Theory
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.
Booms and Busts
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The Dutch Monetary Environment During Tulipmania
When the economics profession turns its attention to financial panics and crashes, the first episode mentioned is tulipmania. In fact, tulipmania has become a metaphor in the economics field.
The Great Depression: Mises vs. Fisher
Ludwig von Mises established the foundations of modem Austrian economics while Irving Fisher established the foundations of modem mainstream macroeconomics and central bank policy.
Note: Wolverines, Razorbacks, and Skyscrapers
The Cantillon effects cited in Thornton (2005) are a consequence of the central bank, and result in entrepreneurial errors during expansions in the NBER’s US business cycle chronology.
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.
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,
