The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle

Fred Foldvary

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2015, vol. 74, issue 2, 278-297

Abstract: The Austrian school theory of the business cycle is based on the proposition that an artificial expansion of the money supply reduces the transaction rate of interest below its natural rate, which stimulates excessive investment in capital goods of long duration, and then when the rate of interest rises back up, these investments stop, and the economy falls into recession.

Date: 2015
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