Chapter 1 of 30 · The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century by Mark Thornton
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Contents
Foreword by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Section 1: The Skyscraper Curse
1. What Is the Skyscraper Curse?
2. The History of the Skyscraper Curse Reexamined
6. Cantillon Effects in Skyscrapers
7. The Curse Misses New York. Is Auburn, Alabama, Next?
8. When Will the Next Skyscraper Curse Come?
9. It Is Not the Skyscrapers Fault
10. Should I Stay, or Should I Go?
12. The Curse of the Federal Reserve
Section 2: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century
13. Who Predicted the Great Depression?
14. The New Economists and the Depression of the 1970s
15. The Return of the Austrians
17. Who Predicted the Bubble? Who Predicted the Crash?
Appendix: Some Other Predictions
19. Housing: Too Good To Be True
Price Inflation Follows Monetary Inflation
20. The Economics of Housing Bubbles
21. Is the Housing Bubble Popping?
22. Making Depressions Great Again
Criticisms of the Hydraulic Version of ABCT
The Rational-Expectations Critique—Why Can’t Entrepreneurs Learn?
What about Nineteenth-Century Panics?
What about Robert Murphy’s Prediction of Double-Digit Inflation?
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century
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