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Did Hayek have a monetary theory of business cycles?

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  • Gerald O’Driscoll
  • Douglas Rasmussen

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Joseph Schumpeter, a careful reader of Hayek, categorized Hayek’s theory of economic cycles as non-monetary. Almost every other source, including Hayek himself, categorized the theory as monetary. The issue turns on the concept of causality being used. The question of what causality concept to apply to complex phenomena has substantive implications for economic theory. A simple concept of causality, appropriate to the study of some physical phenomena, will mislead when applied to complex phenomena. We provide examples of errors in analysis that follow from the wrong choice of a causal paradigm. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

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  • Gerald O’Driscoll & Douglas Rasmussen, 2012. "Did Hayek have a monetary theory of business cycles?," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 25(3), pages 255-262, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revaec:v:25:y:2012:i:3:p:255-262
    DOI: 10.1007/s11138-011-0162-4
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    Keywords

    Money; Cycles; Causality; Hayek; Mises; Schumpeter; Sargent; Real business cycle theory; B22; B25; E32; E43;
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    JEL classification:

    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • B25 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

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