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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles - The Ludwig von Mises ...

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Central <strong>and</strong> Free <strong>Bank</strong>ing <strong>The</strong>ory 693explains <strong>and</strong> which a free-banking system, as we have justseen, would be incapable of preventing. <strong>The</strong>refore we mustconclude, in contrast to what Selgin <strong>and</strong> White suggest, 136 thateven if the expansion of fiduciary media fully matches a priorincrease in the dem<strong>and</strong> for them, it will provoke the typicalcyclical effects predicted by the theory of circulation credit.136 We deny that an increase in fiduciary media matched by anincreased dem<strong>and</strong> to hold fiduciary media is disequilibrating orsets in motion the Austrian business cycle. (Ibid., pp. 102–03)

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