There is something wrong with anti-austrians' view on the multiple interest rates. I want to clarify this point. Dr. Hayek on Money and Capital – by Sraffa If money did not exist, and loans were made in terms of all sorts of commodities, there would be a single rate which satisfies the conditions of equilibrium, but there might be at any one moment as many “natural” rates of interest as there are commodities, though they would not be “equilibrium” rates. The “arbitrary” action of the banks is by no means a necessary condition for the divergence; if loans were made in wheat and farmers (or for that matter the weather) “arbitrarily changed” the quantity of wheat produced, the actual rate of interest on loans in terms of wheat would diverge from the rate on other commodities and there would be no single equilibrium rate.
Sraffa and Hayek on Multiple Interest Rates
Sraffa and Hayek on Multiple Interest Rates
Sraffa and Hayek on Multiple Interest Rates
There is something wrong with anti-austrians' view on the multiple interest rates. I want to clarify this point. Dr. Hayek on Money and Capital – by Sraffa If money did not exist, and loans were made in terms of all sorts of commodities, there would be a single rate which satisfies the conditions of equilibrium, but there might be at any one moment as many “natural” rates of interest as there are commodities, though they would not be “equilibrium” rates. The “arbitrary” action of the banks is by no means a necessary condition for the divergence; if loans were made in wheat and farmers (or for that matter the weather) “arbitrarily changed” the quantity of wheat produced, the actual rate of interest on loans in terms of wheat would diverge from the rate on other commodities and there would be no single equilibrium rate.