Table of Contents

Introduction: Money, Cycles, and Crises in the United States and Canada - Steven Horwitz
PART I: AUSTRIAN MONETARY AND BUSINESS CYCLE THEORY
Financial Foundations of Austrian Business Cycle Theory - Nicolas Cachanosky and Peter Lewin
The Optimal Austrian Business Cycle Theory - Alexander W. Salter and William J. Luther
Hayek on the Neutrality of Money - Steven Horwitz
On the Empirical Relevance of the Mises–Hayek Theory of the Trade Cycle - William J. Luther and Mark Cohen
Expansionary Monetary Policy at the Federal Reserve in the 1920s - Patrick Newman
PART II: THE US AND CANADIAN EXPERIENCE COMPARED
The Political Regime Factor in Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Historically Accounting for the US and Canadian Experiences of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis - George Bragues
An Empirical Comparison of Canadian-American Business Cycle Fluctuations with Special Reference to the Phillips Curve - Robert F. Mulligan
Canadian Versus US Mortgage Markets: a Comparative Study from an Austrian Perspective - Andrew T. Young
PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REGULATION AND CRISIS
Banking Regulation and Knowledge Problems - Thomas L. Hogan and G. P. Manish
The Comparative Political Economy of a Crisis - Peter J. Boettke and Liya Palagashvili
Policy Design and Execution in a Complex World: Can We Learn from the Financial Crisis? - Peter Lewin

About the Author

Edited by Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA

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Editor Steven Horowitz presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles investigating Austrian economic policy, the nation’s approach to macroeconomics, and the business cycle theory associated with the Austrian school of economics. The editor has organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in three parts devoted to Austrian monetary and business cycle theory, the U.S. and Canadian experience of the financial crisis combined, and the political economy of regulation and crisis. The editor is a faculty member of St. Lawrence University in New York.
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