Overview

This book discusses contemporary banking and monetary policy issues from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics. Based on the heritage of the Austrian school, leading scholars and practitioners offer a coherent diagnosis and analysis of the factors leading to Europe’s current financial crisis. The first part of the book discusses Ludwig von Mises’s and Friedrich August von Hayek’s ideas on banking and monetary policy from both historical and economic standpoints. It includes contributions on Austrian monetary dynamics and micro-foundational business cycle theory, von Mises’s concepts of liquidity and solvency of fractional-reserve banks, and liberalism of Austrian economics. The second part analyzes the measures taken by the European Central Bank (ECB) in light of the ideas of von Mises and Hayek. It includes contributions on non-neutrality of money, ECB monetary policy, and the future of the ECB. The third and final part presents discussions on monetary reforms, including contributions on Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies and anti-deflationist Paranoia. 

Full Product Details

Author:   Annette Godart-van der Kroon ,  Patrik Vonlanthen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   4.355kg
ISBN:  

9783319758169

ISBN 10:   3319758160
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   03 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Mises’s and Hayek’s ideas on banking and monetary policy from a historical, economic point of view.- Mises’s geldtheorie.- Money: Capital good, consumer good, or (media of) exchange good?.- The trend of economic thinking of market and money: What is Hayek's position on the issues?.- Part 2: The measures taken by the ecb considered in the light of ideas of Mises and Hayek.- What is wrong with the 2% inflation standard.- Unintended consequences of ecb policies on Europe's periphery.- The failure of ecb monetary policy from a Mises/ Hayek persepctive.- Hayek and Mises on non-neutrality of money-Implications for monetary policy.- Managing decline by expanding government: The case of Germany.- Part 3: Proposed monetary reforms for the future.- Anti-deflationist paranoia.- The reconsideration of Hayek 's idea on De- nationalization of  money: Taking the growing tendency of digital currencies in consideration.- Cryptocurrencies from an austrian perspective.- Blockchain- The new intellectual battleground in economics

Reviews

The editors are to be heartily congratulated for putting together this book, which covers an impressive range of topics in monetary economics from an explicitly Austrian perspective. ... This book is indispensable reading for anyone who has a professional or vocational interest in the Austrian approach to money, finance, and business cycles. (Joseph T. Salerno, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 23 (1), 2020)

Author Information

Annette Godart-van der Kroon (lic.jur) is the President Ludwig von Mises Institute – Europe and under her guidance, the Institute has organized a multitude of successful conferences and dinner debates since its establishment in 2002. LVMI – Europe has a Board of Directors composed of prominent economists, politicians and thinkers originating from Europe and beyond. She also possesses long-term experience as a civil affairs lawyer at the Courts of Roermond and Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1996, she became a member of the Mont Pélerin Society, an influential society composed of Nobel Prize winning economists and other leading scholars. She is an author of several books and she presented many articles at Universities such as the University of Athens, Erfurt, Maastricht, Heilbronn, Lviv and others. Patrik Vonlanthen is founder and president of the Swiss Mises Institute. Patrik works as a senior project leader and consultant. As president of the Swiss Mises Institute he passionately promotes the core principles liberty, property and peace.  

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