Prices and Production

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Prices and Production is a seminal economic work by Friedrich Hayek that develops his theory of the business cycle and the role of monetary disturbances in causing economic fluctuations.

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instanceOf book
economic treatise
academicDiscipline economics
macroeconomic theory
monetary economics
associatedWith Austrian School of economics
London School of Economics
author Friedrich Hayek
surface form: F. A. Hayek

Friedrich Hayek
basedOn Hayek’s London School of Economics lectures
circulation academic readership in economics
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationDate 1931
genre Austrian School of economics
surface form: Austrian School economics

economics
macroeconomics
hasPart analysis of relative price changes
discussion of forced saving
exposition of multi-stage production structure
treatment of neutral money concept
hasRevisedEdition second edition with additional material
historicalContext Great Depression era economic debates
influenced The Theory of Money and Credit
surface form: Austrian business cycle theory

macroeconomic debates in the 1930s
monetary overinvestment theories
influencedBy Böhm-Bawerk’s capital theory
Knut Wicksell
Ludwig von Mises
language English
libraryOfCongressClassification HB
mainSubject business cycle
capital theory
economic fluctuations
monetary disturbances
monetary theory
notableFor being one of Hayek’s earliest major English works
shaping early 20th-century business cycle theory debates
systematic presentation of Austrian capital-based macroeconomics
publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul
relatedWork Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle
Profits, Interest and Investment
The Pure Theory of Capital
theoreticalContribution analyzes role of monetary disturbances in economic fluctuations
argues that credit expansion can cause unsustainable booms
develops Hayek’s theory of the business cycle
emphasizes intertemporal structure of production
explains how monetary policy can generate cyclical unemployment
links interest rate distortions to malinvestment in capital structure
timePeriodDiscussed interwar period

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