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This article demonstrates certain doctrines of the Austrian school of economics are untenable. The focus is on certain aspects of capital theory undergirding Austrian Business Cycle theory. Other criticisms of Austrian Business Cycle Theory from Cambridge-Italian economists are briefly surveyed....
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In response to the global economic crisis, some have advocated that Austrian school macroeconomics be reconsidered. This paper examines elements of Roger Garrison's Time and Money as an exposition of Austrian Business Cycle Theory not incorporating some of the more complex elements of Hayek's...
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In response to the global economic crisis, some have advocated that economists consider the economics of the Austrian school. This paper examines elements of Roger Garrison's Time and Money as an exposition of Austrian Business Cycle Theory not incorporating some of the more complex elements of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012715414
This article demonstrates certain doctrines of the Austrian school of economics are untenable. The focus is on certain aspects of capital theory undergirding Austrian Business Cycle theory. Other criticisms of Austrian Business Cycle Theory from Cambridge-Italian economists are briefly surveyed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725403
This article demonstrates certain doctrines of the Austrian school of economics are untenable. The focus is on certain aspects of capital theory undergirding Austrian Business Cycle theory. Quotations from the Austrian school economist Ludwig Lachmann and the Italian-Cambridge economist Joan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731609
In the Cambridge Capital Controversy, critics associated with Cambridge, UK, attack the logical coherence of neoclassical theory and claim to outline an alternative approach to economics. The most prominent neoclassical economists responding to the controversy acknowledge that many models in the...
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This paper presents the results of an empirical exploration of data from countries worldwide. Income distribution, as associated with the system of prices of production, fails to describe many economies. Economies in most countries or regions lie near their wage-rate of profits frontier, when...
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This article presents an analysis based on a comparison of stationary states. With technology and relative markups among industries taken as exogenous, the long-period trade-off between wages and rates of profits is determined. A long-period change in relative markups among industries can create...
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Paul A. Samuelson extends the Ricardian theory of foreign trade to a model of small open economies in which countries can trade semi-finished capital goods on international markets, as well as trade in produced consumer goods. He argues that this extension provides an additional gain from trade,...
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Samuelson extends the Ricardian theory of foreign trade to a model of small open economies in which countries can trade semi-finished capital goods on international markets, as well as produced consumer goods. He argues that this extension provides an additional gain from trade, which he labels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920517