The Austrian view of depressions

Perhaps I should begin with a little discussion of how I got involved with Austria to begin with. This will also include the rather bizarre way I got into economics. I was a student in the University of Chicago law school and they required all such students to take a one-quarter course in economics under Henry Simons, one of the founders of the Chicago school. He was a proponent of the view that depressions were caused by deflation. I found myself in complete agreement, and still am.