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Lecture series

The Business Cycle

A lecture series of 24 recordings (0.5 hours) from the Mises.org media library, with Murray N. Rothbard.

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  1. 01

    Can you address the recession of 1958?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 2:32 · 297 KB

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  2. 02

    Do you predict inflation or deflation?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:18 · 34.6 KB

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  3. 03

    How can government promote recovery from recession?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:36 · 69.8 KB

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  4. 04

    How did Keynes answer his critics?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:28 · 53.7 KB

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  5. 05

    How do the theories of Mises and Hayek differ?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:36 · 69.5 KB

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  6. 06

    How would a free market prevent monopoly?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:34 · 66.1 KB

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  7. 07

    Since the FDIC there have been fewer bank failures. Isn't this a good thing?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:31 · 59.7 KB

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  8. 08

    What about the Chicago school (Milton Friedman)?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:31 · 60.1 KB

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  9. 09

    What are the origins of the predominant theory of the business cycle?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 4:19 · 504 KB

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  10. 10

    What caused the depression of 1929?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 2:54 · 340 KB

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  11. 11

    What is the basic business cycle theory developed by the Currency School?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 3:41 · 431 KB

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  12. 12

    What is the Keynesian approach to business cycles?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 1:14 · 143 KB

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  13. 13

    What is the Keynesian solution to depressions?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:50 · 96.2 KB

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  14. 14

    What is the Keynesian view of the role of government vis-a-vis the free market?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:58 · 112 KB

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  15. 15

    What is the proper role of the Federal Reserve?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:06 · 10.5 KB

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  16. 16

    What purpose do anti-trust laws serve?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:31 · 59.0 KB

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  17. 17

    What role did government paper money play in early booms and busts?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:29 · 55.1 KB

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  18. 18

    What the the Austrian view of recessions?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:14 · 27.2 KB

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  19. 19

    What theories opposed the currency schools' view of the business cycle?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 1:04 · 123 KB

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  20. 20

    Why did the "establishment" accept Keynesianism so readily?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 1:04 · 125 KB

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  21. 21

    Why did the theories of Mises and Hayek originally attract attention?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 1:10 · 136 KB

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  22. 22

    Why didn't the Austrian view of the business cycle prevail?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:46 · 89.7 KB

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  23. 23

    Why doesn't a collapse or recession occur quickly when the money supply is expanded?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 0:47 · 91.5 KB

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  24. 24

    Why is the industrial market economy so often blamed for the busts in business cycles?

    Murray N. Rothbard · 1:48 · 209 KB

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Murray N. Rothbard.