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A. Hayek's pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what later became known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over the monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economists are once again paying heed to Hayek's thoughts on the repercussions of excessive central bank interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusiness Cycles, Part I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusiness Cycles, Part I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e bring together Hayek's work on what causes periods of boom and bust in the economy. Moving away from the classical emphasis on equilibrium, Hayek demonstrates that business cycles are generated by the adaptation of the structure of production to changes in relative demand. 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