Rothbard's (1993) analysis incomplete in that it unduly portrays a rise in the volume of investment as a necessary counterpart … and Rothbard. We explore these implications, demonstrating that the present demand schedule and the volume of investment …

economists identify saving and the credit supply by interpreting the macroeconomic saving-investment identity as a budget … supply of credit and thus more funds to be invested by firms for investment. The paper shows that proponents of this theory …

This paper critiques Rothbard's ([1962] 2004) concept of gross investment. Rothbard introduced the concept in order to … investment as he defines it does not contain significant information concerning the question as to whether the capital structure …

argue that there is much confusion about key macroeconomic concepts like saving, investment and finance. This confusion is … best summarised in the statement "saving finances investment". After clearly defining the accounting relationships between … lending, financial saving and physical investment it will be shown that this is a nonsense statement. The theory behind it …

accumulation and decumulation of capital. This yields a coherent view of the interrelations of real and nominal saving–investment … indispensable for the viability of the market system. An equilibrium of saving and investment would be rather disadvantageous for …

From its publication in The Times in 1933, John Maynard Keynes’s investment multiplier sparked much debate and … controversy. Can an investment generate 3 or 4 times its value in income within one year? To date, no one has questioned the …

Intangible investment is growing as a share of economic activity. We present a simple framework incorporating its … distinguishing characteristic of generally greater scalability and lower marginal costs than tangible investment. We show evidence … large constituent of intangible investment, may be leading to wage stagnation and greater market concentration …

with frictions in the adjustment of both capital and labor. We posit that hiring of labor is akin to investment in capital ….S. corporate sector data to estimate firms' optimal hiring and investment decisions and the consequences for firms' value. We then … investment and physical capital. We find that a conventional specification - quadratic adjustment costs for capital and no hiring …