The analysis of sustainable economic growth and development often focuses on how to control the market process through coercive state intervention. While state interventionism may play a significant role in countries’ progress, entrepreneurship is the driving force behind sustainable growth and development. Entrepreneurship is the people’s judgment on ideas, plans, and projects, which promises profit in uncertain times. Its effects are the creation and transmission of information and social coordination as a dynamic process of identifying and solving human problems. Sustainable development is the widening range of entrepreneurial alternatives open to people, and sustainable growth is a phase of sustainable development that depends on genuine savings to finance increasingly capital-intensive production structures. The degree to which people are entrepreneurs and the direction genuine savings take depend on institutional arrangements. Some institutions are more conducive to sustainable growth and development than others. After reviewing principles of growth and development sustainability, how coercive state intervention influences economic performance is discussed, proposing novel policy conclusions and research avenues to cultivate entrepreneurship and genuine savings in a post-COVID-19 world.

Economics carries a complex, due to its fuzzy knowledge, because the differences among the economic schools. In the middle of the 20th century, an attempt was made to close falsely with the Neoclassical Synthesis, imposing a mainstream version of applied and econometric style. This did not solve the problem of knowledge, but rather aggravated it with the paradox of recurrent seizures and autistic tendency. The aforementioned problem is diagnosed here, taking into account the four ontological categories of economic knowledge, in addition to predicting the risks and challenges that await the emerging program of knowledge and complexity Economy.

Estudio de Economía Política, Macroeconomía y Economía Aplicada basado en el enfoque de la Escuela Austriaca sobre los ciclos económicos para aplicarlo al caso español (2002-2014). Se centra la atención en el problema endémico de los ciclos económicos, como periodos sucesivos y distorsionadores de auge y recesión que sufren las economías desarrolladas, como la española. Esta investigación busca encontrar evidencia empírica a favor de la Teoría Austriaca del Ciclo Económico, para el caso concreto de España entre 2002 y 2014, mediante la aplicación de métodos econométricos. En consecuencia, tras revisar la escasa literatura econométrica previa sobre el ciclo austriaco, este estudio tiene como principal objetivo el explicar e ilustrar el auge con la introducción efectiva del euro en 2002, la recesión de 2008-10 y la recuperación de 2014, a la luz de la teoría austriaca del ciclo monetario endógeno y no neutral.

This critical review explains the negative impact of the euro on the Spanish economy and its distortion in the period from 2002 to 2014. In this first cycle within the euro area, there was a financial boom, without voluntary savings, which gen...

The conventions of monetary theory assume the central banking system (CBS) as the starting point for achieving the stability and efficiency of the financial system. This paper stresses the stability-efficiency thesis based on the Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT). It argues that the stability-efficiency thesis under CBS poses a paradox for two main reasons. First, central banks' interest rate handling causes business cycles, yielding the intertemporal discoordination of the money and goods markets. Second, a central bank's lender-of-last-resort role is an incentive to call for further interest rate handling, making the chance of smooth business cycles difficult or impossible. This paradox is empirically analyzed and discussed through the True Money Supply (TMS) performance in the United States's business cycle phases between 1975 and 2022. Consistent with the ABCT, the research results unlock the paradox by showing that CBS causes business cycles. Some policy implications are outlined for further research and revision of monetary theory.