F.A. Hayek's trade cycle theory was triumphant in the early 1930s, but withered within a decade as critics went unanswered. Hayek challenged others to “prove” theoretically, what he “knew” intuitively about business cycles. In the late 1990s, Roger Garrison responded with a logically...

Ludwig von Mises considered immediate overconsumption essential to the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT); Friedrich Hayek never agreed. Examining this disagreement, Roger Garrison concluded that Hayek's exposition of ABCT (a stages-of-production framing without immediate overconsumption)...