Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure Review

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(More customer reviews)"Time and Money" combines a new graphical depiction of
competing theories of unemployment and trade cycles with standard
Subjectivist arguments in this area. The authors'"loose joint" theory
of trade cycles is an extension of arguments made by Austrian
economists Ludwig Von Mises and Friedrich Von Hayek. Garrison also
critiques the ideas Keynesians and Monetarists. One of the key
strengths of the graphics in this book is that it focuses attention on
under appreciated elements of subjectivist-Austrian trade cycle
theory. These graphs clarify the effects that interest rates have on
household decisions on saving and consumption. Also, the graphs
facilitate comparisons between different schools of thought. This book
has little that is really new in the Subjectivist theory of the trade
cycle and its associated critiques of competing theories in this
area. By in large, this book organizes material from other books and
articles, many of which are by Garrison.
The primary value of this book is in its organization and presentation of
this alternative explanation of the trade cycle and unemployment. This
book is important because it facilitates the dissemination of a viable
explanation of important economic phenomena. The need for this
dissemination is both internal and external to the Subjectivist
school. Many members of the Subjectivist school promote this theory
without fully understanding it. Those outside of the school tend to
ignore this theory completely. These two facts are closely
related. Clear representation of these ideas is an essential part of
the effort on the part of Subjectivists to regain their former place
among the mainstream of the economics profession. By doing this in his
book, Garrison has made great progress in reducing the costs of
learning about Subjectivist Capital/Trade Cycle theory. A lower money
price for this book would extend this process further.

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Time and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with the aid of a capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an area that until now has been neglected in favour of labour and money-based macroeconomics.

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