Part III: Banking, Inflation, and the Business Cycle
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"Part III: Banking, Inflation, and the Business Cycle" is a section of Murray Rothbard’s economic treatise that analyzes how fractional-reserve banking and monetary expansion drive inflation and generate boom-bust cycles in the economy.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Part III: Banking, Inflation, and the Business Cycle Context triple: [The Mystery of Banking, hasPart, Part III: Banking, Inflation, and the Business Cycle]
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Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle
"Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle" is a widely cited macroeconomics book that develops and applies New Keynesian models to analyze how monetary policy affects inflation dynamics and economic fluctuations.
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Keynesian business cycle theories
Keynesian business cycle theories explain economic fluctuations primarily through changes in aggregate demand, emphasizing the roles of price and wage rigidities, government policy, and market imperfections in causing and mitigating recessions and booms.
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Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles
"Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles" is an influential economic work by Alvin Hansen that analyzes how government taxation and spending can be used to stabilize economic fluctuations over the business cycle.
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“Business Cycles and Equilibrium”
“Business Cycles and Equilibrium” is an influential economics book by Fischer Black that presents his unconventional, finance-based theory of macroeconomic fluctuations and market equilibrium.
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National Bureau of Economic Research studies in business cycles
National Bureau of Economic Research studies in business cycles is a scholarly series of empirical and historical research volumes analyzing fluctuations and long-term patterns in the U.S. and global economies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Part III: Banking, Inflation, and the Business Cycle Target entity description: "Part III: Banking, Inflation, and the Business Cycle" is a section of Murray Rothbard’s economic treatise that analyzes how fractional-reserve banking and monetary expansion drive inflation and generate boom-bust cycles in the economy.
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A.
Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle
"Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle" is a widely cited macroeconomics book that develops and applies New Keynesian models to analyze how monetary policy affects inflation dynamics and economic fluctuations.
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B.
Keynesian business cycle theories
Keynesian business cycle theories explain economic fluctuations primarily through changes in aggregate demand, emphasizing the roles of price and wage rigidities, government policy, and market imperfections in causing and mitigating recessions and booms.
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C.
Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles
"Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles" is an influential economic work by Alvin Hansen that analyzes how government taxation and spending can be used to stabilize economic fluctuations over the business cycle.
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D.
“Business Cycles and Equilibrium”
“Business Cycles and Equilibrium” is an influential economics book by Fischer Black that presents his unconventional, finance-based theory of macroeconomic fluctuations and market equilibrium.
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E.
National Bureau of Economic Research studies in business cycles
National Bureau of Economic Research studies in business cycles is a scholarly series of empirical and historical research volumes analyzing fluctuations and long-term patterns in the U.S. and global economies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book section
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treatise section ⓘ |
| analyzes |
fractional-reserve banking
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monetary expansion ⓘ |
| argues |
fractional-reserve banking drives inflation
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monetary expansion drives inflation ⓘ monetary expansion generates boom-bust cycles ⓘ |
| associatedWith | free-market monetary theory ⓘ |
| author | Murray Rothbard ⓘ |
| critiques |
central bank–supported credit expansion
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fractional-reserve banking ⓘ |
| discipline | economics ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
inevitable bust after unsustainable expansion
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malinvestment during booms ⓘ role of money supply in economic cycles ⓘ |
| examines |
causes of boom-bust cycles
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causes of inflation ⓘ |
| explains |
how artificial booms lead to recessions
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how bank-created money affects prices ⓘ how credit expansion distorts capital structure ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
economic fluctuations
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effects of credit expansion ⓘ relationship between banking and the business cycle ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
readers interested in monetary theory
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students of Austrian economics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| links |
bank credit expansion to business cycles
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bank credit expansion to inflation ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
banking
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business cycle ⓘ inflation ⓘ |
| partOf | an economic treatise by Murray Rothbard ⓘ |
| perspective | Austrian School of economics ⓘ |
| positionInWork | third part of the treatise ⓘ |
| subDiscipline |
business cycle theory
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macroeconomics ⓘ monetary economics ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework | Austrian business cycle theory ⓘ |
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