Capital Structure, Not Just Capital: The Austrian View of Busts
Why Austrian business-cycle theory centers on time, heterogeneity, and 'wrong' investment—plus how the story fits (and frictions) against Keynesian demand and Minskyite finance.
Subjective value, entrepreneurship, spontaneous order, and capital-based theories of boom and bust outside the Keynesian toolbox.
Why Austrian business-cycle theory centers on time, heterogeneity, and 'wrong' investment—plus how the story fits (and frictions) against Keynesian demand and Minskyite finance.
A fair-minded tour of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's attack on Marx's exploitation account: why the Austrian economist thought 'surplus value' confused production time with waiting—and what defenders of Marx replied.
What Friedrich Hayek meant by dispersed knowledge, why ‘more data’ cannot replace the market, and how his 1945 argument reshaped debates on planning, technology, and democracy.
How Israel Kirzner reframed the entrepreneur as a discoverer in an open-ended market process—and where his vision complements (and tensions) Mises, Hayek, and neoclassical equilibrium.
What Ludwig von Mises meant by praxeology, how it connects to marginalism and the calculation debate, and why it still divides readers on method, prediction, and policy.
Where the Austrian tradition lands on central banking, gold, rules versus discretion, and the administrative state—stated fairly, without pretending every Austrian agrees on everything.
A no-nonsense comparison of the Austrian and neoclassical traditions — where they agree, where they diverge, and why the distinction still matters for how we think about markets and policy.
Beyond the 'markets vs. government' caricature — how Hayek and Keynes diverged on the nature of uncertainty, the role of money, and what holds a market economy together.
How the marginal revolution of the 1870s remade economics — and why the Austrian branch, led by Carl Menger, diverged from the mathematical mainstream built by Jevons and Walras.
The most famous rivalry in economics was never as simple as 'markets vs. government.' A closer look reveals two thinkers grappling with the same problem from opposite ends — and each capturing a truth the other missed.