Volume 9, No. 2 (Summer 2006) Joseph T. Salerno (2003) argues economic growth has occurred in periods of deflation. The Austrian School’s broad understanding of deflation is underscored by the four definitions offered by Salerno (growth deflation, cash-building deflation, bank credit deflation, and confiscatory deflation). Keynesians , by
Volume 13, Number 2 (Summer 2010) This paper is a review of Austrian School references in business cycle studies published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The NBER’s business cycle chronology is limited by its exclusion of the Panic of 1819, described by Rothbard (1962). Another limitation of most NBER cycle literature is a
Volume 13, Number 4 (Winter 2010) 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. Completion of the Woolworth Building and other skyscrapers coincide with NBER-identified contractions when the errors are
Volume 10, No. 4 (2007) 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. Then, as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board he embraced the “Too Big to Fail” doctrine orchestrating a bailout of New York banks by flooding the nation with paper currency.
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