Die vorliegende Projektstudie ist in vier Hauptteile gegliedert, in denen jeweils spezifische Aspekte schwerpunktmäßig thematisiert werden. -- Hansjörg Klausinger sichtet klassische, keynesianische und monetaristische Erklärungen der "Großen Depression" und diskutiert vor diesem Hintergrund...

1. Investigations into monetary theory -- 2. The purchasing power of the consumer and the depression -- 3. A note on the development of the doctrine of 'forced saving' -- 4. The present state and immediate prospects of the study of industrial fluctuations -- 5. Restoring the price-level? -- 6....

Verlagsinfo: "Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek's erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market...

The Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (Austrian Economic Association, NOeG ) provides a prominent example of the Viennese economic circles and associations that more than academic economics dominated scientific discourse in the interwar years. For the first time this chapter gives a thorough...