Production Period and Cycles: Several Interpretations in a Neo-Austrian Economic Perspective

Jose Augier and Laurent Augier

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2003, vol. 16, issue 2-3, 205-29

Abstract: The aim of this contribution is to study the notion of the period of production by taking into consideration the time-consuming nature of capital. Long delays between investment expenditures and receipts of profits from capital are indeed a remarkable property of the Austrian theory of capital. The study of the great essays of the neo-Austrian capital theory modeling allows us to postulate that there are at least two large contributing groups depending upon whether the production period is endogenous or exogenous. Our work consists in showing the well-founded methodology of the first current by suggesting a neo-Austrian interpretation of the non-steady state behavior of the standard macroeconomic model. We show that the origin of economic cycles is the potential conflict between the producer's plan of investment through the period of production and the inter-temporal choices of the consumers. Copyright 2003 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 2003
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