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Author: Eugen-von-BohmBawerk: 7 records

About Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

1851 - 1914

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Austrian economist at the University of Vienna, and Austrian finance minister, made the modern intertemporal theory of interest rates possible in his work Capital and Interest. His second book in this series of two, The Positive Theory of Capital, continued on to study the accumulation and influences of capital, proposing an average period of production. This work on capital stood in contrast to the contemporaneous work of John Bates Clark on the marginal productivity of capital, and set off a great debate in economics. Although marginal productivity theory proved more accurate, Böhm-Bawerk's highlighting the importance of thinking clearly about interest rates and their intertemporal nature permanently changed economic theory. In the process, he also helped highlight errors in the economic foundations of socialism, as proposed by Rodbertus and Marx. Böhm-Bawerk was influenced by Carl Menger; Ludwig von Mises and Joseph Schumpeter were Böhm-Bawerk's students.

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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/14/2011

This book by Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk is a supplement to his two great books, Capital and Interest and The Positive Theory of Capital. Here he takes on alternatives to the Austrian theory he had previously presented, and thereby clarifies the case. It...
Control or Economic Law

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/10/2011

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk was a giant of the Austrian School. Finally, here is an approachable book by him. His masterworks on interest and capital run up to 1000-plus pages. Everyone should read them, as Mises said, but of course it is a bit much t...
Karl Marx and the Close of His System

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/10/2011

The great economist takes on Karl Marx, and his fundamental failure to understand the workings of the capital market and its relationship to value. The criticism was devastating, so much so that a leading Marxist responded, and thus herein is Rudolf...
The Positive Theory of Capital

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/9/2011

This is the second book in the series of Boehm-Bawerk translations by Scottish economist William Smart, originally published in 1891. It is, as the title suggests, the positive theory of capital. It begins with full front matter by Smart himself,...
Capital and Interest

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/8/2011

The great economist and finance minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a pillar of the Austrian School. As a champion of the new marginalist school, this great work brought him more fame than even Carl Menger had in his day. Here is the origi...
"Ultimate Standard of Value, The"

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 9/28/2007

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"Value, Cost, and Marginal Utility"

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 1/15/2007

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