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Resumen: Desde hace algunas décadas varias subdisciplinas de la economía se ven reorientadas haci... more Resumen: Desde hace algunas décadas varias subdisciplinas de la economía se ven reorientadas hacia el análisis institucional. Este desarrollo ha afectado más específicamente también a los campos de la macroeconomía y la teoría monetaria donde ha llevado a varias propuestas de reformas financieras y monetarias de gran alcance. Una de las propuestas más exitosas aboga por una banca libre con reserva fraccionaria, o sea un sistema sin banco central en el cual, sin embargo, los bancos puedan operar con una reserva fraccionaria. Este artículo comenta varios defectos conceptuales de dicha propuesta. Más específicamente, varias alegaciones de los banqueros de la banca libre con reserva fraccionaria relativas a las supuestas características operativas de este sistema se critican partiendo de la teoría económica. Más en particular, se denuncia como errónea la alegación de que una banca libre con reserva fraccionaria llevaría a la desaparición del ciclo económico. Además, se realiza un análisis de mano invisible lo cual refuerza la conclusión que la banca libre con reserva fraccionaria es incompatible con los principios éticos y jurídicos propios de una sociedad libre. Palabras clave: banca libre con reserva fraccionaria, ciclo económico, mano invisible.
Le problème économique peut se concevoir comme un problème de coordination. Dans le cas dun cycle... more Le problème économique peut se concevoir comme un problème de coordination. Dans le cas dun cycle économique, cette coordination échoue à léchelle macroéconomique. La théorie du cycle économique étudie un ensemble de phénomènes qui ont tendance à se renverser (self-reversing). Lintérêt scientifique pour ce type de phénomènes nest certainement pas nouveau ou récent. Au contraire, très probablement la théorie du cycle économique constitue traditionnellement un des sujets les plus importants dans le cadre ...
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Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 1/2006 tempts to formulate a conclusion and to arrive at some sort ... more Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 1/2006 tempts to formulate a conclusion and to arrive at some sort of provisional evaluation. On the one hand, it is recognized that many of the answers to numerous questions regarding Hayek's ultimate significance and place in the history of political thought are highly controversial and still the object of ongoing debate. On the other hand, the author also concludes, in what is almost certainly an overstatement, that the least controversial part of Hayek s legacy may well be his contributions to theoretical macroeconomics.1 As an ...
The book under review is the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto's book Dine... more The book under review is the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto's book Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos which first appeared in Spain in 1998. A second edition of the book followed at the beginning of the year 2002 in the wake of worldwide economic events illustrating the great timeliness of the book and the considerable relevance of its subject matter. In the meantime previous reviewers of the book had urged the translation of the book into English1, a task now completed as a result of the great effort of Melinda A. Stroup, ...
Procesos de mercado: revista europea de economía política, 2008
Información del artículo Credit expansion, the prisoners's dilemma and free banking as mecha... more Información del artículo Credit expansion, the prisoners's dilemma and free banking as mechanism design.
Different causal explanations of the business cycle typically lead to different sorts of policy a... more Different causal explanations of the business cycle typically lead to different sorts of policy advice. Whereas the new classical economists had essentially made a case against discretionary policy activism and in favour of rules, based on a set of arguments including the policy ineffectiveness proposition, the Lucas critique and time inconsistency, thus providing a sustained challenge to the monetarist as well as the Keynesian orthodoxies, the new Keynesian school has provided rigorous microfoundations to explain why markets ...
Differentes facons de conceptualiser les phenomenes cycliques en macroeconomie sont comparees et ... more Differentes facons de conceptualiser les phenomenes cycliques en macroeconomie sont comparees et examinees sur le plan conceptuel. L´auteur explore plus particulierement l´approche classique, " structuraliste ", monetaire, aussi connue comme " theorie autrichienne " et qui a beneficie d´un regain d´interet de la part de la communaute academique recemment. L´auteur ajoute une dimension institutionnelle en effectuant une comparaison entre differents contextes institutionnels possibles, plus particulierement par rapport aux tendances qu´ils peuvent manifester vers l´instabilite economique, la perturbation de l´equilibre intertemporel etc. La the��se contient plus particulierement : un examen critique des arguments pour et contre le systeme bancaire concurrentiel aux reserves fractionnaires ; commentaire critique concernant une tentative recente d´incorporer certaines notions tirees de la theorie contemporaine du comportement devant le risque dans une theorie du cycle. Une attention particuliere est egalement consacree a des questions de methodologie, et plus particulierement : la legitimite de l´utilisation des notions de probabilite numerique ; la notion adequate de " fondements microeconomiques " pour une theorie du cycle.
Foundations of Business Cycle Research, 2009
Abstract: The subject matter of conventional macroeconomics is strictly dichotomized: separate ma... more Abstract: The subject matter of conventional macroeconomics is strictly dichotomized: separate macroeconomic theories are developed for the long run and for the short run. In long-run macroeconomics the economy is analyzed as if relative prices are fully adjusted to their long-run equilibrium values in each period, the fundamentals of the economy such as preferences and technology evolve smoothly and predictably, and expectations are correct all the time. Macroeconomics for the short run is about understanding the annual or ...
European Journal of Law and Economics, 1998
At whatever level an evolutionary perspective may be applied, it always presumes the operation of... more At whatever level an evolutionary perspective may be applied, it always presumes the operation of three mechanisms: (a) a mutation mechanism, ie, a process by which constantly variation and novelty are introduced—in Popper's terms: new tentative solutions—(b) a selection mechanism, ie a process of systematic selection among the variants—in Popper's terms: a process of error-elimination—(c) a replication mechanism, ie, a process by which variants or tentative solutions are preserved, reproduced or propagated. ... Although both economists and ...
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view i... more If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large. ... Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Public Economics with number 0508010. ... Randall Holcombe, 1991. "Constitutions as constraints: A case study of three american constitutions," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 303-328, September. ... Robert J. Barro & David B. Gordon, ...
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics on line, 1999
The various subdisciplines within the emerging 'new institutionalism' in economics all draw speci... more The various subdisciplines within the emerging 'new institutionalism' in economics all draw special attention to the legal-political constraints within which economic and political agents choose and therefore represent a return of economics to its appropriate legal foundations. By changing the name of his research programme to constitutional political economy Buchanan distanced himself from those parts of the public choice literature that remained too close to the traditional welfare economics approach. This chapter draws lessons for law and economics from recent developments in the re-emerging field of constitutional political economy. CPE compares alternative sets of institutional arrangements, in markets and the polity, and their outcomes, using 'democratic consent' as an internal standard of comparison. The chapter discusses the methodological foundation of the CPE approach, presents Buchanan's reconstruction of the Coase theorem along subjectivist-contractarian lines and gives an overview of recent contributions to the literature.
Procesos De Mercado Revista Europea De Economía Política, 2009
Abstract: Gary Becker's paper about free banking written in 1956 was originally intended as ... more Abstract: Gary Becker's paper about free banking written in 1956 was originally intended as a reaction to the 100-percent reserve proposals that were then popular at the University of Chicago. Today the original paper clearly illustrates how considerably our views and theories about free banking have evolved in the past 50 years. This development is to a considerable extent the result of the work and the writings of economists of the Austrian School. Pascal Salin is one of the most prominent members of the Austrian Free Banking ...
Resumen: Desde hace algunas décadas varias subdisciplinas de la economía se ven reorientadas haci... more Resumen: Desde hace algunas décadas varias subdisciplinas de la economía se ven reorientadas hacia el análisis institucional. Este desarrollo ha afectado más específicamente también a los campos de la macroeconomía y la teoría monetaria donde ha llevado a varias propuestas de reformas financieras y monetarias de gran alcance. Una de las propuestas más exitosas aboga por una banca libre con reserva fraccionaria, o sea un sistema sin banco central en el cual, sin embargo, los bancos puedan operar con una reserva fraccionaria. Este artículo comenta varios defectos conceptuales de dicha propuesta. Más específicamente, varias alegaciones de los banqueros de la banca libre con reserva fraccionaria relativas a las supuestas características operativas de este sistema se critican partiendo de la teoría económica. Más en particular, se denuncia como errónea la alegación de que una banca libre con reserva fraccionaria llevaría a la desaparición del ciclo económico. Además, se realiza un análisis de mano invisible lo cual refuerza la conclusión que la banca libre con reserva fraccionaria es incompatible con los principios éticos y jurídicos propios de una sociedad libre. Palabras clave: banca libre con reserva fraccionaria, ciclo económico, mano invisible.
Le problème économique peut se concevoir comme un problème de coordination. Dans le cas dun cycle... more Le problème économique peut se concevoir comme un problème de coordination. Dans le cas dun cycle économique, cette coordination échoue à léchelle macroéconomique. La théorie du cycle économique étudie un ensemble de phénomènes qui ont tendance à se renverser (self-reversing). Lintérêt scientifique pour ce type de phénomènes nest certainement pas nouveau ou récent. Au contraire, très probablement la théorie du cycle économique constitue traditionnellement un des sujets les plus importants dans le cadre ...
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Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 1/2006 tempts to formulate a conclusion and to arrive at some sort ... more Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 1/2006 tempts to formulate a conclusion and to arrive at some sort of provisional evaluation. On the one hand, it is recognized that many of the answers to numerous questions regarding Hayek's ultimate significance and place in the history of political thought are highly controversial and still the object of ongoing debate. On the other hand, the author also concludes, in what is almost certainly an overstatement, that the least controversial part of Hayek s legacy may well be his contributions to theoretical macroeconomics.1 As an ...
The book under review is the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto's book Dine... more The book under review is the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto's book Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos which first appeared in Spain in 1998. A second edition of the book followed at the beginning of the year 2002 in the wake of worldwide economic events illustrating the great timeliness of the book and the considerable relevance of its subject matter. In the meantime previous reviewers of the book had urged the translation of the book into English1, a task now completed as a result of the great effort of Melinda A. Stroup, ...
Procesos de mercado: revista europea de economía política, 2008
Información del artículo Credit expansion, the prisoners's dilemma and free banking as mecha... more Información del artículo Credit expansion, the prisoners's dilemma and free banking as mechanism design.
Different causal explanations of the business cycle typically lead to different sorts of policy a... more Different causal explanations of the business cycle typically lead to different sorts of policy advice. Whereas the new classical economists had essentially made a case against discretionary policy activism and in favour of rules, based on a set of arguments including the policy ineffectiveness proposition, the Lucas critique and time inconsistency, thus providing a sustained challenge to the monetarist as well as the Keynesian orthodoxies, the new Keynesian school has provided rigorous microfoundations to explain why markets ...
Differentes facons de conceptualiser les phenomenes cycliques en macroeconomie sont comparees et ... more Differentes facons de conceptualiser les phenomenes cycliques en macroeconomie sont comparees et examinees sur le plan conceptuel. L´auteur explore plus particulierement l´approche classique, " structuraliste ", monetaire, aussi connue comme " theorie autrichienne " et qui a beneficie d´un regain d´interet de la part de la communaute academique recemment. L´auteur ajoute une dimension institutionnelle en effectuant une comparaison entre differents contextes institutionnels possibles, plus particulierement par rapport aux tendances qu´ils peuvent manifester vers l´instabilite economique, la perturbation de l´equilibre intertemporel etc. La the��se contient plus particulierement : un examen critique des arguments pour et contre le systeme bancaire concurrentiel aux reserves fractionnaires ; commentaire critique concernant une tentative recente d´incorporer certaines notions tirees de la theorie contemporaine du comportement devant le risque dans une theorie du cycle. Une attention particuliere est egalement consacree a des questions de methodologie, et plus particulierement : la legitimite de l´utilisation des notions de probabilite numerique ; la notion adequate de " fondements microeconomiques " pour une theorie du cycle.
Foundations of Business Cycle Research, 2009
Abstract: The subject matter of conventional macroeconomics is strictly dichotomized: separate ma... more Abstract: The subject matter of conventional macroeconomics is strictly dichotomized: separate macroeconomic theories are developed for the long run and for the short run. In long-run macroeconomics the economy is analyzed as if relative prices are fully adjusted to their long-run equilibrium values in each period, the fundamentals of the economy such as preferences and technology evolve smoothly and predictably, and expectations are correct all the time. Macroeconomics for the short run is about understanding the annual or ...
European Journal of Law and Economics, 1998
At whatever level an evolutionary perspective may be applied, it always presumes the operation of... more At whatever level an evolutionary perspective may be applied, it always presumes the operation of three mechanisms: (a) a mutation mechanism, ie, a process by which constantly variation and novelty are introduced—in Popper's terms: new tentative solutions—(b) a selection mechanism, ie a process of systematic selection among the variants—in Popper's terms: a process of error-elimination—(c) a replication mechanism, ie, a process by which variants or tentative solutions are preserved, reproduced or propagated. ... Although both economists and ...
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view i... more If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large. ... Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Public Economics with number 0508010. ... Randall Holcombe, 1991. "Constitutions as constraints: A case study of three american constitutions," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 303-328, September. ... Robert J. Barro & David B. Gordon, ...
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics on line, 1999
The various subdisciplines within the emerging 'new institutionalism' in economics all draw speci... more The various subdisciplines within the emerging 'new institutionalism' in economics all draw special attention to the legal-political constraints within which economic and political agents choose and therefore represent a return of economics to its appropriate legal foundations. By changing the name of his research programme to constitutional political economy Buchanan distanced himself from those parts of the public choice literature that remained too close to the traditional welfare economics approach. This chapter draws lessons for law and economics from recent developments in the re-emerging field of constitutional political economy. CPE compares alternative sets of institutional arrangements, in markets and the polity, and their outcomes, using 'democratic consent' as an internal standard of comparison. The chapter discusses the methodological foundation of the CPE approach, presents Buchanan's reconstruction of the Coase theorem along subjectivist-contractarian lines and gives an overview of recent contributions to the literature.
Procesos De Mercado Revista Europea De Economía Política, 2009
Abstract: Gary Becker's paper about free banking written in 1956 was originally intended as ... more Abstract: Gary Becker's paper about free banking written in 1956 was originally intended as a reaction to the 100-percent reserve proposals that were then popular at the University of Chicago. Today the original paper clearly illustrates how considerably our views and theories about free banking have evolved in the past 50 years. This development is to a considerable extent the result of the work and the writings of economists of the Austrian School. Pascal Salin is one of the most prominent members of the Austrian Free Banking ...