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Austrian economist Ludwig Mises’s central role in the socialist calculation debates has been consensually acknowledged since the early 1920s. Yet, only recently, Nemeth, O’Neill, Uebel, and others have drawn particular attention to Mises’s pertinent encounter with one of the most colorful...
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The socialist calculation debate occurred simultaneously with the development of increasingly idealized neoclassical market models in the early decades of the 20th century. Nonetheless, free market neoclassical economists were conspicuously absent from that debate, leaving the pro-market case to...
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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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Recently, the historical socialist calculation debate seems to have revived. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, some socialist authors have continued the apparently concluded calculation debate. One of the main ideas behind this revival held by the socialist side is that the latest advances in...
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Although Minsky's interpretation of Keynes's macroeconomics and essential message clashes with authoritative alternative interpretations, it has become increasingly influential during the years following the Global Financial Crisis, even in mainstream circles. This paper offers a critical...
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This chapter is motivated by the following questions: what are the implications of an Austrian reassessment of the theory of public goods? What would be left to say that’s right about public goods? The implicit assumption in the theory of public goods being utilized is to frame it in terms of...
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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