1st Edition

Business Cycle Theory, Part I Volume 3 Selected Texts, 1860-1939

By Harald Hagemann Copyright 2002
    388 Pages
    by Routledge

    In the mid-19th century, the business cycle was increasingly recognized as a recurrent phenomenon. This edition contains key texts from the range of literature in the field. It covers many Anglo-Saxon writers as well as contributions from the French, German, Italian, Russian and Swedish debates.

    VOLUME III Monetary Theories of the Business Cycle: Introduction Minnie Throop England, ‘Promotions as the Cause of Cycles’ Irving Fisher, ‘Our Unstable Dollar and the So-Called Business Cycle’ R. G. Hawtrey, ‘The Trade Cycle’ A. C. Pigou and R. G. Hawtrey, ‘The Monetary Theory of the Trade Cycle’ Ludwig von Mises, ‘Money, Credit and Interest’ in The Theory of Money and Credit A. C. Pigou, ‘Correctives of the Trade Cycle’ Friedrich August von Hayek, ‘Some Remarks on the Relation of Monetary Theory to Business Cycle Theory’ Adolf Löwe, ‘On the Influence of Monetary Factors on the Business Cycle’ Gunnar Myrdal, ‘Wicksell’s Statement of the Problem of Monetary Theory’ in Monetary Equilibrium Irving Fisher, ‘The Debt–Deflation Theory of Great Depressions’ Gottfried Haberler, ‘Money and the Business Cycle’ Jacob Viner, ‘International Aspects of the Gold Standard’ Henry C. Simons, ‘Banking and Business Cycles’ Dennis H. Robertson, ‘A Survey of Modern Monetary Controversy’

    Biography

    Edited by Harald Hagemann