B

Backwardness, technological, 504–505

Bailey, Samuel, 220

Baker, John Randall, 496n

Balance of payments, 447–449, 453–455

Balance sheets, 213

Balkania, 797

Ballistics, 77

Banking School, 436–437, 441

Banknotes, 441–445

Banks and banking

booms and, 559

British, 439

cartels of, 444

central, 457, 462

currency expansion and, 789n

European, 442

Federal Reserve Act of 1913, 566

fiduciary media and, 431

free, 440, 441–445

international, 473

interventionism and, 437, 444

liberalism and, 440–141

loans, 568

private, 462

Swiss, 462, 463see also, Credit expansion; Cycle theory; Malinvestment; Money; Trade

“Barbarous relics,” 468

Barone, Enrico, 697

Barter

agreements, 796–799

fiction, of value and prices, 202–206

Bastiat, Frédéric, 147n, 827

Beard, Charles and Mary, 625n

Behaviorism

animal versus man, 16

conscious versus unconscious, 11

criticism of, 7

purposeful, 26–27

Bentham, Jeremy, 174, 192–193, 670, 827, 830

Berdyaew, Nicolas, 671n

Bergmann, Ernst, 204n

Bergson, Henri, 33n, 49, 100n

Bernard, Claude, 28n

Bernoulli, Daniel

doctrine de mensura sortis,125–126

Betting, 115–116

Beveridge, William Henry, 764

Bias, 48, 686see also, Valuation

Bilateral exchange agreements, 794–796

Bimetallism, 468–469, 775–776

Birth control, 663

Bismarck, Otto, 363, 364

Bodin, Jean, 232, 817

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen, 121, 202n, 311, 477, 478, 479, 484–486, 523, 524–525

Bonald, Louis, 860

Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, 509, 662

Bonar, James, 664n

Bondage, 197, 624–630, 817, 835

Bonds

contractual and hegemonic, 196–199, 280, 281, 497, 461, 841

government, 226

Bookkeeping, 231, 301

Booms

characteristics of, 550–562

crack up, 424, 433

economic progress and, 573, 576–578

end of, 783

generation of, 789n

industry and, 557

investments and, 574see also, Credit expansion; Cycle theory; Depressions

Bourgeoisie, 9, 74, 78, 81, 268, 605

Brentano, Lujo, 618

Bretton Woods Conference, 475

Bribery, 273

British, see, Great Britain

Brüning, Heinrich, 855

Brunner, Emil, 671n

Buddhism, 28

Bureaucratic management, 300–307

Burke, Edmund, 860

Business

calculation, 301

fluctuations, 583

forecasting, 649, 866–868

good will and, 376

New Deal plan to control, 815

outlays, 242n

production and, 489

propaganda, 316–319

risk-taking and, 106, 108, 112, 115, 805–807

socialist control of, 257see also, Entrepreneurs; Interventionism