Readings on the Money and the Business Cycle
For those who haven’t been able to make it to the last couple of weeks, here is some material that is well worth looking at.
“On the Origins of Money”
Carl Menger
www.mises.org/books/origins_of_money.pdf
Peter Schiff Lecture: Financial Bubbles Explained
“Why the Meltdown Should Have Surprised No-One”
Peter Schiff, 2009
60 min. video presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPF2rxUyCTU
Meltdown
Thomas Woods
Chapter 4, ‘How Government Causes the Boom-Bust Economic Cycle’
[Get a free chapter of the book here:
http://www.meltdownthebook.com/offers/offer.php?id=MEL001
“The Global Financial/Economic Crisis: Causes & Solution”
David McGregor
[Article online at
http://pc.blogspot.com/2008/11/global-financialeconomic-crisis-true.html
Economics For Real People
Gene Callahan
Chapter 13: “Times Are Hard: On the Causes of the Business Cycle”
Book online at www. mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf
“Financial Crisis and Recession”Jesus Huerta de Soto
“Our Financial House of Cards”
“The Myth that Laissez-Faire is Responsible for the Economic Crisis”
“Credit Expansion, Economic Inequality and Stagnant Wages”
“The Housing Bubble and the Credit Crunch”
George Reisman
http://mises.org/daily/2926 and http://mises.org/daily/3165 and
http://georgereisman.com/blogWP/?tag=boom-bust and http://georgereisman.com/blogWP/?tag=credit-crunch
“The Origin of Money & Its Value”
Robert Murphy
http://mises.org/daily/1333
“There’s No Such Thing as ‘Overproduction’” Thomas Woods
http://www.fee.org/articles/great-myths-of-the-great-depression/
The Austrian Theory: A Summary
Roger W. Garrison
http://mises.org/tradcycl/theorsum.asp
Time & Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure
Roger Garrison
Chapter 4, ‘Sustainable and Unsustainable Growth’
http://www.auburn.edu/~garriro/tam.htm
Friedrich A. Hayek
http://mises.org/tradcycl/avoidinf.asp
Economic Depressions: Their Causes & Cure
Murray Rothbard
http://mises.org/daily/3127
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig Von Mises
Chapter 17, ‘Indirect Exchange’
Chapter 18, ‘Action in the Passing of Time’
Chapter 19, ‘Interest’
Chapter 20 ‘Interest, Credit Expansion & the Trade Cycle’
Chapter 31, ‘Currency, Credit Creation & the Business Cycle’
Book online at http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/HmA/msHmA.html
The Great Depression
Lionel Robbins
Chapter 1: “1914-1933”
Chapter 2: Miconceptiions”
Chapter 3: “The Genesis of the Depression”
Book online at http://mises.org/books/depression-robbins.pdf
Mark A. Abrams
Chapter: “Can Price Stabilisation Help?”
[Chapter available in Austrian Economics: A Reader, ed, by Richard M. Ebeling]
The Organisation of Debt Into Currency
Charles Holt Carroll
You can read an introduction to this important but little-known book here:
http://mises.org/daily/2114. The complete book is online at
http://mises.org/etexts/currency.pdf
