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- From: whg@INEL.GOV (William H. Gray)
- Subject: Re: Boom Boom Boom Boom :)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.162251.26381@inel.gov>
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- Reply-To: whg@INEL.GOV (William H. Gray)
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- References: <thompson.714869497@daphne.socsci.umn.edu> <1992Aug27.105013.3773@desire.wright.edu> <thompson.715041679@kiyotaki.econ.umn.edu> <37013@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:22:51 GMT
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- In article <37013@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- |>
- |> Anyone here heard of Ludwig von Mises? His theory of the business cycle
- |> seems to be the only one which holds water:
- |>
- |> Government inflation of the money supply causes the boom, and
- |> when the inflation is ceased the recession occurs.
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- I am not a fan of L von M, but admire his scholarship. This misstatement of his
- business cycle theory hardly does him justice. IMHO his experience with the dis-
- astrous German (and Austrian) inflation of the '20's biased him toward inflation-
- induced cycle swings. That notwithstanding, his theory does not explicitly require
- inflation for there to be (gov't induced) cycle swings.
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- Another unfortunate circumstance for his theories is that they are in part founded
- on an objection to statistical methods which is not mathematically correct.
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