First published 2018
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century by Mark Thornton is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0.
- Mark Thornton
- First published
- 2018
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Auburn, Alabama: Mises Institute
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0
Mark Thornton argues that record-setting skyscrapers are a sign of a coming bust: they are built when cheap credit from central banks distorts the structure of production, and they tend to be finished as the boom turns. He tests the idea against more than a century of skyscraper construction and the crises that followed it.
The book sets this against the Austrian theory of the business cycle and the economists who used it to predict the major crises of the last century.
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- Mark Thornton (born 1960) is an Austrian economist and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, has authored seven books, and is a frequent guest on national radio shows. This archive holds 3 of Thornton's works.
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30 chapters · 80,804 words · free to read here
- Front Matter
- Foreword by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 What Is the Skyscraper Curse?
- Chapter 2 The History of the Skyscraper Curse Reexamined
- Chapter 3 Do You Have a Theory?
- Chapter 4 How To Get Milk
- Chapter 5 Cantillon Effects
- Chapter 6 Cantillon Effects in Skyscrapers
- Chapter 7 The Curse Misses New York. Is Auburn, Alabama, Next?
- Chapter 8 When Will the Next Skyscraper Curse Come?
- Chapter 9 It Is Not the Skyscrapers Fault
- Chapter 10 Should I Stay, or Should I Go?
- Chapter 11 Razorbacks and Wolverines
- Chapter 12 The Curse of the Federal Reserve
- Chapter 13 Who Predicted the Great Depression?
- Chapter 14 The New Economists and the Depression of the 1970s
- Chapter 15 The Return of the Austrians
- Chapter 16 Bubble-Bust in Japan Preface
- Chapter 17 Who Predicted the Bubble? Who Predicted the Crash?
- Chapter 18 Bull Market?
- Chapter 19 Housing: Too Good To Be True
- Chapter 20 The Economics of Housing Bubbles
- Chapter 21 Is the Housing Bubble Popping?
- Chapter 22 Making Depressions Great Again
- Chapter 23 String Theories
- Chapter 24 What Is Wrong with ABCT?
- Chapter 25 Summary and Conclusion: End the Fed
- Bibliography
- Index
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