Money, Banking, And The Business Cycle Volume II Hardcover

India

B. Simpson

The business cycle is a complex phenomenon. On the surface, it involves a multitude of mechanisms, such as oscillations in interest rates, prices, wages, unemployment, output, and spending. But a deeper understanding requires a unifying theory to make these various parts whole. Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing these mechanisms, and offers a robust prescription for reducing financial instability over the long-term. Volume II refutes Keynesian and real business cycle theories and provides policy prescriptions to virtually eliminate the cycle. Simpson offers a detailed analysis of several historical monetary systems around the world and shows the causes and effects of fiat money and fractional-reserve banking, as well as a 100-percent reserve gold standard.

1137340770

9781137340771

English

Palgrave MacMillan

02 Jul 2014

306

Brian P. Simpson is Professor and Economist at National University, USA.

This two-volume work updates and extends the business cycle analysis inaugurated by Mises and Hayek. Particularly noteworthy are its incorporation of an aggregate economic accounting framework beyond GDP, its critique of so-called real business cycle theory, and its support of a 100-percent-reserve gold standard, which, it argues, would end the business cycle and, in the absence of government intervention, would come into being simply on the basis of free competition, without being required by law. -George Reisman, author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics and Pepperdine University Professor Emeritus of Economics "Brian Simpson's two volumes titled Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle are thorough yet plain language discussions of the causes and consequences of business cycles in modern economies. He weaves basic economic theory with historical analysis of various episodes, and demonstrates that the cyclical fluctuations that are identified with macroeconomic volatility are a consequence not of the inherent instability of capitalism, but the manipulation of money and credit by the government. These volumes are highly recommended to anyone who is trying to think through the question of macroeconomic volatility, and the recent economic history of the Great Recession in particular." -Peter Boettke, University Professor of Economics & Philosophy, George Mason University "Brian Simpson's "Money, Banking and the Business Cycle Volume 1 - Integrating Theory and Practice" truly breaks new ground. Other economists have attempted to explain how fiat money causes economy-wide business cycles, but none have fully validated their work because their data have been inadequate. Professor Simpson succeeds through analysis of the right data, thus bridging the chronic gap between theory and practice that has caused many to be skeptical of Austrian Business Cycle Theory.