The Real Business Cycle (RBC) models a neoclassical system impacted by random changes on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) caused by exogenous "technology shocks." Its success in calibration tests confirms TFP's crucial role in the cycle yet, by assuming it exogenous, it requires its shocks being...

This chapter develops a toolkit of neoclassical macroeconomic models, and applies these models to the US economy from 1929 to 2014. We first filter macroeconomic time series into business cycle and long-run components, and show that the long-run component is typically much larger than the...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Austrian Theory of Capital -- 3. The Böhm-Bawerkian Theory of Capital and Interest -- 4. The Hayek Triangle -- 5. Impact of the Decrease in Time Preference on the Structure of Production -- 6. Possibility of Eternal Growth and Comparison with the Neoclassical Growth...

Combining concrete policy-oriented modeling strategies of World War II with what was received as traditional neoclassical theory, in 1956 Robert Solow constructed a simple, clean, and smooth-functioning "design" model that served many different purposes. As a working object it enabled...