First published 1936
The 'Austrian' Theory of the Trade Cycle
The 'Austrian' Theory of the Trade Cycle by Ludwig von Mises is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Ludwig von Mises
- First published
- 1936
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 130
- License
- Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.
Mises delivered this essay as a summary of the circulation-credit theory of the business cycle: booms are set off by credit expansion that pushes the money rate of interest below the rate the market would have set, and the bust is the correction of the malinvestment that follows.
It was first published in French in 1936, in the Bulletin of the Société Belge d’Études et d’Expansion, and translated by David O’Mahoney and J. Huston McCulloch. The archive holds it as chapter 2 of The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1996), so the PDF and EPUB below are that whole volume, which also carries essays by Haberler, Rothbard, Hayek and Garrison.
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- 130 pages, 8 chapters, and about 27,694 words in the edition this archive serves.
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- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
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- Yes. This archive holds a free recorded reading (6 recordings, 2.8 hours). It streams in the browser or downloads as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- Who wrote The 'Austrian' Theory of the Trade Cycle?
- Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economics and a prolific author on economic theory, epistemology, and political philosophy. This archive holds 53 of von Mises's works.
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