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Finance ✦ Penny’s Take

Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle

Brian P. Simpson Β· 2014
68/100
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An ambitious and rigorously argued work within the Austrian economics tradition, with genuine empirical application to historical case studies that most ABCT texts skip. The problem is that critics outside the Austrian school find the framework overstretched, and the two-volume academic format is inaccessible to anyone who isn't already deep in monetary theory. Solid for its target audience; nearly unreadable for anyone else.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety96
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing62
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit78
πŸ‘ Human-eye gut-check65
Penny’s verdict68
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