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What does the Austrian theory of the trade cycle have to do with Gordon Ramsay?
FORBES: Gordon Ramsay's Monetary Nightmares
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And their theory of the business cycle has won few mainstream converts.
ECONOMIST: Heterodox economics
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The Austrian theory of the trade cycle explains why loans are systematically granted to people who will almost certainly not be successful restaurant owners.
FORBES: Gordon Ramsay's Monetary Nightmares
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Rather than explaining the cycle in terms of market failure, as Keynes did, real business-cycle theory views a recession as the optimal response by households and firms to a shift in productivity.
ECONOMIST: The causes of booms and busts
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Until, that is, management gurus and investment bankers cook up a new theory to justify conglomerates, and the cycle of integration and disintegration starts all over again.
ECONOMIST: Breaking up companies is back in fashion
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The cycle of abuse is a social theory developed by Lenore Walker, who taught at the Rutgers Medical School, to describe an often-predictable pattern in an abusive relationship.
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Before his writings on the carbon cycle, Mr Bethe produced several papers that endeavoured to pull together the whole theory of nuclear physics.
ECONOMIST: Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, died on March 6th, aged 98
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Without boring you in academia, one of the assumptions in the theory suggests that companies and asset classes have a natural, repeating cycle in which good performance begets bad performance and vice-versa.
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