# Essential Hayek: Economic Booms and Busts

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/essential-hayek-economic-booms-busts>

**By** Donald J. Boudreaux

**Published:** June 18, 2015

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In this video, we explore Hayek's work on economic booms and busts, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974.

This is part of [a Fraser Institute project](http://www.essentialhayek.org/) to present the ideas of F. A. Hayek.