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Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Keynes’s General Theory, Soaring Wheat Prices, and Subprime Mortgage Write-Downs

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Keynes’s presentation of own rates of interest on wheat and housing is set within Austrian business cycle theory, to show that soaring wheat prices and subprime mortgage writedowns are expected, when a monetary authority holds interest rates too low for too long. From that basis, further interest rate cuts are an unlikely remedy for a recession whose roots lie in a proliferation of credit.

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  • Keynes, John M. [1936] 1973. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, vol. VII, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, edited by D.E. Moggridge (London: Macmillan).

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  1. Economics Department, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK

    G. R. Steele

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Steele, G.R. Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Keynes’s General Theory, Soaring Wheat Prices, and Subprime Mortgage Write-Downs. Quart J Austrian Econ 11, 119–122 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12113-008-9037-3

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