English summary: The Austrian economist and social philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize, is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the 20th century's tradition of classical liberalism. This volume portrays the early Hayek of the 1920s and 1930s as he heads towards his well-known liberal positions on money and the cycle of inflationary boom and inevitable bust. Hayek's early writings criticizing the monetary policy of the United States after 1918 or the ...
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English summary: The Austrian economist and social philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize, is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the 20th century's tradition of classical liberalism. This volume portrays the early Hayek of the 1920s and 1930s as he heads towards his well-known liberal positions on money and the cycle of inflationary boom and inevitable bust. Hayek's early writings criticizing the monetary policy of the United States after 1918 or the theory of under-consumption, already point towards his later rejection of Keynesian economics and the policies derived from it. Furthermore, in two typescripts, which are printed here for the first time, Hayek developed a theory of a monetary economy as the basis for his future work on money and the cycle. In so doing, he ventured into the history of money as a testing ground for his theses. German description: Der 1974 mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnete Okonom und Sozialphilosoph Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) gilt weithin als einer der bedeutendsten Denker des Liberalismus im 20. Jahrhundert. Der vorliegende Band zeigt Hayek in den 1920er und fruhen 1930er Jahren auf dem Weg zur Herausarbeitung seiner liberalen Positionen im Bereich des Geldwesens und der von diesem erzeugten Konjunkturen und Krisen. Bereits in seinen fruhen Schriften weist Hayeks Kritik an der amerikanischen Geldpolitik nach 1918 und an der Erklarung von Krisen durch "Unterkonsumtion" auf seine spatere Ablehnung des Keynesianismus voraus. Die Arbeit an den Grundlagen fur seine geld- und konjunkturtheoretischen Hauptwerke dokumentieren die hier erstmals abgedruckten Kapitel der unvollendeten "Geldtheoretischen Untersuchungen", ebenso wie die Fragment gebliebene "Geschichte des Geldwesens" die historische Basis fur Hayeks Thesen belegt.
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