The Monetary or Circulation-Credit Theory of the Trade Cycle

06/11/2010 Ludwig von Mises

The British Currency School did not criticize the multifarious projects to lower or abolish interest by means of a banking reform. They tacitly ratified the naïve presumption of money’s neutrality, and many decades passed before the spell was broken, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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