Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Where do Interest Rate Come from?

Frank Fetter was the great American Austrian who devoted a fantastic part of his professional life to arguing on behalf of the pure time preference theory of interest. His work is lucid and powerful, and largely would have been forgotten if Murray Rothbard had not assembled this excellent volume of his writings. It supports the Misesian case in every detail, and set it against the productivity theory and other false notions of interest...more>>