On the Manipulation of Money and Credit. Людвиг фон Мизес

2 Post–World War I Policies

       3 Empirical Studies

       4 Arbitrary Political Decisions

       5 Sound Theory Essential

       CHAPTER VI Control of the Money Market

       1 International Competition or Cooperation

       2 “Boom” Promotion Problems

       3 Drive for Tighter Controls

       CHAPTER VII Business Forecasting for Cyclical Policy and the Businessman

       1 Contributions of Business Cycle Research

       2 Difficulties of Precise Prediction

       CHAPTER VIII The Aims and Method of Cyclical Policy

       1 Revised Currency School Theory

       2 “Price Level” Stabilization

       3 International Complications

       4 The Future

       THE CAUSES OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (1931)

       CHAPTER I The Nature and Role of the Market

       1 The Marxian “Anarchy of Production” Myth

       2 The Role and Rule of Consumers

       3 Production for Consumption

       4 The Perniciousness of a “Producers’ Policy”

       CHAPTER II Cyclical Changes in Business Conditions

       1 Role of Interest Rates

       2 The Sequel of Credit Expansion

       CHAPTER III The Present Crisis

       A. Unemployment

       1 The Market Wage Rate Process

       2 The Labor Union Wage Rate Concept

       3 The Cause of Unemployment

       4 The Remedy for Mass Unemployment

       5 The Effects of Government Intervention

       6 The Process of Progress

       B. Price Declines and Price Supports

       1 The Subsidization of Surpluses

       2 The Need for Readjustments

       C. Tax Policy

       1 The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

       D. Gold Production

       1 The Decline in Prices

       2 Inflation as a “Remedy”

       CHAPTER IV Is There a Way Out?

       1 The Cause of Our Difficulties

       2 The Unwanted Solution

       THE CURRENT STATUS OF BUSINESS CYCLE RESEARCH AND ITS PROSPECTS FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE (1933)

       1 The Acceptance of the Circulation Credit Theory of Business Cycles

       2 The Popularity of Low Interest Rates

       3 The Popularity of Labor Union Policy

       4 The Effect of Lower than Unhampered Market Interest Rates

       5 The Questionable Fear of Declining Prices

       THE TRADE CYCLE AND CREDIT EXPANSION: THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF CHEAP MONEY (1946)

       1 Introductory Remarks

       2 The Unpopularity of Interest

       3 The Two Classes of Credit

       4 The Function of Prices, Wage Rates and Interest Rates

       5 The Effects of Politically Lowered Interest Rates

       6 The Inevitable Ending

       Index

FOREWORD

      This book is a collection of papers written by Mises during the 1920s and 1930s on money and the boom/bust trade cycle, the field in which one