The Spatial Market Process
ISBN: 978-1-78190-006-2, eISBN: 978-1-78190-007-9
Publication date: 15 June 2012
Abstract
In “An Austrian Theory of Spatial Land,” Fred E. Foldvary addresses the disregard of spatial issues in basic Austrian economic theory as formulated by Carl Menger (1871) and elaborated upon by Ludwig von Mises (1940). Foldvary shows that Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1826) and Henry George (1879/1884), in particular, serve to fill these gaps in the classical Austrian theory of the market process. Moreover, a theory that incorporates spatial land leads to the conclusion that Austrian business cycle theory is incomplete: The “malspeculation” that accompanies urbanization whenever capital and labor rather than land are the main sources of tax revenue will have to be added to the malinvestment that is caused by expansionary monetary policies.
Citation
Emanuel Andersson, D. (2012), "The Spatial Market Process", Emanuel Andersson, D. (Ed.) The Spatial Market Process (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. ix-xvi. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-2134(2012)0000016003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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