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First published 1931

The Stock Market, Credit, and Capital Formation

by Fritz Machlup

Glasgow, Edinburgh, London: William Hodge and Co., Ltd.,; NY: The MacMillian Company, 1940. Translated from a revised version of the 1931 German edition ( Börsenkredit, Industriekredit und Kapitalbildung) by Vera C. Smith.430 pagesISBN 9781610160506Updated November 21, 2011

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Author: Fritz Machlup
First published: 1931
Format: PDF and EPUB
Pages: 430
ISBN: 9781610160506
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Money, banking & crises Austrian theory & method Markets, trade & industry

Economist Fritz Machlup was an early Misesian who wrote this book as an early study in the workings of the business cycle. In particular, he investigates and explains the relationship between expanding credit, monetary policy, and rising stock prices. The German edition was written in 1929 and published in 1930, and proved prophetic in every way. The English edition came out in 1940, with some revisions. It remains the most thorough analysis of stock-market bubbles from the point of view of the Austrian School. It demonstrates that the business cycle can and does affect stock markets and in unusual ways.

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Is The Stock Market, Credit, and Capital Formation free to download?: Yes. The complete 430-page PDF and EPUB downloads directly from this page (16.8 MB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
How long is The Stock Market, Credit, and Capital Formation?: 430 pages, 25 chapters, and about 113,905 words in the edition this archive serves.
Who wrote The Stock Market, Credit, and Capital Formation?: Fritz Machlup (1902–1983) was an Austrian-American economist who grew up in Wiener Neustadt, working in his family’s cardboard factory while earning his doctorate under Ludwig von Mises in 1925. This archive holds 9 of Machlup's works.

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19 chapters · 113,905 words · page numbers are this file's

Prefacep. 6
I. Competition in the Credit Marketp. 14
II. Concepts Used and Problems Discussedp. 19
III. The Role of Capital in Security Transactionsp. 34
IV. The Absorption of Capital in Stock Exchange Speculationp. 54
V. The Loss of Capital in Stock Exchange Speculationp. 70
VI. The Demand for Money by the Stock Marketp. 80
VII. The Demand for Loans by the Stock Marketp. 110
VIII. The Liquid Funds of Bearish Sellersp. 142
IX. Capital Gains, Savings and a Vicious Circlep. 159
X. A Digression on International Speculationp. 167
XI. The Supply of Capital and Industrial Fluctuationsp. 177
XII. Credit Creation and the Attempt to Determine Its Proper Limitsp. 187
XIII. Working Capital and Short-Term Loansp. 215
XIV. The Money Market and the Trade Cyclep. 244
XV. Industrial Investment and the Quality of Creditp. 262
XVI. The Stock Market, Easier, Dearer Creditp. 275
XVII. Conclusionsp. 301
Appendicesp. 314

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Fritz Machlup 1902–1983

Fritz Machlup (1902–1983) was an Austrian-American economist who grew up in Wiener Neustadt, working in his family’s cardboard factory while earning his doctorate under Ludwig von Mises in 1925. Read more about Fritz Machlup.

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