Munich Personal RePEc Archive
The debt-inflation cycle and the global financial crisis
Boettke, Peter and Coyne, Christopher
George Mason University
2011
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32091/
MPRA Paper No. 32091, posted 07 Jul 2011 19:25 UTC
Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1753345
Department of Economics
The Debt-Inflation Cycle and the Global Financial Crisis
Peter Boettke and
Christopher J. Coyne
George Mason University Department of Economics
Paper No. 11-06
Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1753345 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1729228
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