First published 1890
Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory
Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
- First published
- 1890
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 323
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan, 1890; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Böhm-Bawerk's survey of interest theories from antiquity to the 1880s, first published in German in 1884 and translated by William A. Smart in 1890. He sorts earlier explanations into productivity, use, abstinence, and labor families, finds each wanting, and clears the ground for the time-preference theory he developed in the companion volume, The Positive Theory of Capital.
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- 323 pages, 36 chapters, and about 168,744 words in the edition this archive serves.
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- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914) was an Austrian economist, professor at the University of Vienna, and three-time Austrian finance minister. This archive holds 10 of von Böhm-Bawerk's works.
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36 chapters · 168,744 words · free to read here
- Translator's Preface
- The Problem of Interest
- Book I, Chapter I: The Opposition to Interest in Classical and Mediæval Times
- Book I, Chapter II: The Defence of Interest From the Sixteenth Till the Eighteenth Century
- Book I, Chapter III: Turgot's Fructification Theory
- Book I, Chapter IV: Adam Smith and the Development of the Problem
- Book I, Chapter V: The Colourless Theories
- Book II, Chapter I: The Productive Power of Capital
- Book II, Chapter II: The Naïve Productivity Theories
- Book II, Chapter III: The Indirect Productivity Theories
- Book III, Chapter I: The Use of Capital
- Book III, Chapter II: Historical Statement
- Book III, Chapter III: The Plan of Criticism
- Book III, Chapter IV: The Use of Capital According to the Say-Hermann School
- Book III, Chapter V: The True Conception of the Use of Goods
- Book III, Chapter VI: Criticism of the Say-Hermann Conceptions
- Book III, Chapter VII: The Independent Use: An Unproved Assumption
- Book III, Chapter VIII: The Independent Use: Its Untenable Conclusions
- Book III, Chapter IX: The Independent Use: Its Origin in Legal Fiction
- Book III, Chapter X: Menger's Conception of Use
- Book III, Chapter XI: Final Insufficiency of the Use Theory
- Book IV, Chapter I: Senior's Statement of the Theory
- Book IV, Chapter II: Criticism of Senior
- Book IV, Chapter III: Bastiat's Statement
- The English Group
- The French Group
- The German Group
- Book VI, Chapter I: Historical Survey
- Book VI, Chapter II: Rodbertus
- Book VI, Chapter III: Marx
- Book VII, Chapter I: The Eclectics
- Book VII, Chapter II: The Later Fructification Theory
- Conclusion
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Lectures that discuss Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory
22 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:
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Again, if you look at these chapters, how price determines the economy, it's very Boehm-Bawerkian, a great subject of Boehm-Bawerk's Capital and Interest, a great treatise, Capital and Interest, in which he stresses this point.
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6. Time is Money: The Austrian Theory of Capital and Interest
This divergence and its consequences resulted in the founder of the Austrian schools taking a detached view of its definitive theory Theory of Capital and Interest Throughout His Life
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Ending the Monetary Fiasco and Returning to Sound Money
… model of the currency school, the differentiation between the natural interest rate and the market interest rate, Market Interest Rate, as outlined by Swedish economist Knut Wichsel, and the Capital and Interest Rate Theory as developed by Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk.
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A Note on Rothbardian Decision-Making Rents
Rothbard's source of inspiration is a quote from a passage from Boehm-Bawerk, from Capital and Interest, And he gives this portion of the Boehm-Bawerk quote.
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13. The Marxian System, II: The Economics of Capitalism and its Inevitable Demise
In the first edition of his Great History of the Theories of Capital and Interest, published in 1884, the year after Marx's death, the outstanding Austrian theorist Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, in his Critique of Marx, pointed out that Marx himself …
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Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk has a great work, Capital and Interest, which came in as a combination of the older Austrian school and the middle 1880s.
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