The renaissance of capital-based macroeconomics belongs to the most significant scholarly developments within the field of macroeconomics in recent times. This paper was a contribution to the special 2001 symposium devoted to a critical evaluation and analysis of the recent revival of...

This paper is the sequel to chapter 30 of the 1999 first edition of The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (ed. J. Backhaus). A new section has been added entitled 'An application of Hayekian law and economics: the comparative analysis of alternative monetary and banking regimes'.

The analogy between Hayekian monetary dynamics and the Friedman/Phelps accelerationist hypothesis is more problematic than some commentators have been prepared to admit. Hayek´s presentation of the 1930s did not produce a convincing argument in defense of the proposition that accelerating...