The contribution by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek to monetary theory stimulates a far-reaching debate on … money. Since the early 1930s Hayek had been concerned about the role of money in the theory of production (Hayek, 1931 …). Influenced by Eugene Bohm-Bawerk’s theory of capital, Hayek deeply examined the effects of monetary policy on the process of …

–“natural rate theory”- dominated interpretations of economic trends and policy prescriptions since the 1970s. Public policy …. Economic trends were filtered through the lens of the “natural rate theory,” focusing on labor market institutions only and … confronts the economic trends with the interpretations of the “natural rate theory” and argues that they hardly fitting the …