Capital Theory, Inflation and Deflation: The Austrians and Monetary Disequilibrium Theory Compared

Steven Horwitz

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1996, vol. 18, issue 2, 287-308

Abstract: At one level or another, economic processes make it possible for diverse individuals to coordinate their activities. Although microeconomists have long recognized this insight, and purport to explain it with their tools, macroeconomists often seem to lose sight of the centrality of coordination when they focus on the movements of, and relationships among, aggregate variables. One problem with emphasizing aggregates is that, in reality, economic coordination ultimately takes place at the microeconomic level, which poses the issue of microfoundations. However, recognizing that micro issues are the fundamental ones does not deny a role for distinctly macroeconomic analysis. Macroeconomic analysis should show how movements in markets for goods that are pervasive (i.e., affect some very large number of microeconomic markets simultaneously), help or harm the coordination processes taking place in those individual markets and thus influence the determination of aggregate measures such as total income and employment.

Date: 1996
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