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An Essay on Capital

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Author
Israel M. Kirzner
Format
EPUB
ISBN
978-1-63069-604-7
Publisher
The Foundation for Economic Education
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Austrian theory & method

Israel Kirzner's 1966 monograph on capital theory, reissued by FEE. Four chapters take up unfinished production plans, capital as a stock rather than a flow, the relation between capital and waiting, and the difficulty of measuring capital, closing with a reference list drawn from the mid-century capital theory literature.

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Israel M. Kirzner (born 1930) is an Austrian-American economist born in London who studied under Ludwig von Mises at New York University, earning his Ph.D. in 1957 and a faculty chair there in 1968. This archive holds 7 of Kirzner's works.

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8 chapters · 54,924 words · free to read here

  1. Front Matter
  2. Foreword by Peter Lewin
  3. Preface
  4. 1. Unfinished Plans
  5. 2. Stocks and Flows
  6. 3. Capital and Waiting
  7. 4. Measuring Capital
  8. List of References
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Israel M. Kirzner b. 1930

Israel M. Kirzner (born 1930) is an Austrian-American economist born in London who studied under Ludwig von Mises at New York University, earning his Ph.D. in 1957 and a faculty chair there in 1968. Read more about Israel M. Kirzner.

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