This paper examines the literature on the periodical recurrence of economic crises up to the 1840s, illustrating how the awareness of this phenomenon was far more widespread than the few existing histories of business cycle theories indicate, and also that early writers were more interested in...

This chapter surveys the classificatory approaches of business cycles and crises theories found in dictionary articles. These are found to belong to a surprisingly small number of types. At first, dictionary writers only cited the theories they wanted to disprove. Then (especially in Germany in...

This paper examines Juglar's theory of periodic crises, comparing its various ingredients with the state of the contemporary literature on the subject. It is argued that, except for the introduction of the systematic use of statistics which was a real novelty, Juglar did not break new grounds,...