Sublime

Irving Fisher, the great classical economist, tells us that the definition of debt deflation is when everyone in a market tries to reduce debt, which results in distress selling. This leads to a contraction of the money supply as bank loans are paid off. This in turn leads to a fall in the level of asset prices and a still greater fall in the net w

In my Far from Equilibrium Economics and Finance course, the first two articles I have my PhD students read are Friedrich von Hayek’s Economics and Knowledge (1937) and The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945) , von Hayek’s classic papers that describe a market economy as a solution to the division of knowledge problem. The third article I have them

The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Classen, is where the statement “pay yourself first” comes from.