Readings in business cycle theory / selected by a committee of the American Economic Associaton.

Preface / by Howard S. Ellis, vii -- Introduction / by Gottfried Haberler, xiii -- Part I. Over-all picture of the business cycle and method of analysis -- 1. The analysis of economic change / by Joseph A. Schumpeter, 1 -- 2. The long waves in economic life / by Nikolai D. Kondratieff, 20 -- 3. Business cycles / by Wesley C. Mitchell, 43 -- 4. Econometric business cycle research / by Jan Tinbergen, 61 -- Part II. Saving, investment and national income -- 5. Some notes on the Stockholm theory of saving and investment / by Bertil Ohlin, 87 -- 6. The outcome of the saving-investment discussion / by Friedrich A. Lutz, 131 -- 7. Saving and investment: definitions, assumptions, objectives / by Abba P. Lerner, 158 -- 8. The rate of interest and the optimum propensity to consume / by Oscar Lange, 169 -- Part III. The multiplier, acceleration principle and government spending -- 9. Mr. Keynes theory of the multiplier a methodological criticism / by Gottfried Haberler, 193 -- 10. Period analysis an multiplier theory / by Fritz Machlup, 203 -- 11. Business acceleration and the law of demand: a technical factor in economic cycles / by John M. Clark, 235 -- 12. Interactions between the multiplier analysis and the principle of accelerations / by Paul A. Samuelson, 261 -- 13. Deficit spending / by John H. Williams, 270 -- 14. An appraisal of the workability of compensatory devices / by John M. Clark, 291 -- Part IV. Monetary theory of the business cycle -- 15.A survey of modern monetary controversy / by Dennis H. Robertson, 311 -- 16. The trade cycle / by Ralph G. Hawtrey, 330 -- 17. Price expectations, monetary disturbances and maladjustments / by Friedrich A. Hayek, 350 -- Part V. Underconsumption theory and secular stagnation thesis -- 18. Economic progress and declining population growth / by Alvin H. Hansen, 366 -- 19. General overproduction / by Hans Neisser, 385 -- 20. Monetary policy and investment / by Howard S. Ellis, 405 -- Part VI. Special commodity cycles -- 21. The cobweb theorem / by Mordegal Ezekiel, 422 -- Bibliography of the literature on business cycle theory / by Harold M. Somers, 443 -- Index to bibliography, 489.