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Topic: Interest Theories 


 

What’s Behind the Interest Rate Conundrum

By Frank Shostak

(3 pages, 2005)

China Does Not Determine U.S. Interest Rates

By Frank Shostak

Shostak suggests that the initial increase in demand for dollars that is evidenced by China’s recent increase in trade surplus with the US is offset by the fact that China’s central bank is buying US Treasuries. Thus China’s efforts have no effect on US interest rates on net. Hence, the low US interest rates, and the burst in the housing bubble that will eventually come about, are the result of US Fed policies rather than the actions of Chinese monetary policy or currency stabilization policies.  (5 pages, 2005)

Classical Economics vs. the Exploitation Theory

By George Reisman

In this excellent article, Dr. Reisman suggests that profits are not deducted from wages as the classical economists, and Marx, thought. In a world without the capitalist, profits are the primary form of income. It is only when capitalists enter the scene that people are able to work for wages, and thus the interests of the capitalists and the wage earners are complimentary rather than exploitative. He then revises the labor theory of value in a manner consistent with this thesis. (2005, 17 pages)

Bohm-Bawerk’s Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest

By Robert Murphy

 

Why Do Capitalists Earn Interest Income?

By Robert Murphy

 

The Abstinence Theory of Interest

By Robert Murphy

 

Labor Cannot Increase its Share at the Expense of Capital

By Roger Garrison

 

Capital and Interest

By Eugen Bohm-Bawerk

 

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