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The Positive Theory of Capital
by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. 428 pgs.

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Title Page

Translator's Preface

Author's Preface

Analytical Table of Contents

Introduction

Book I: The Nature and Conception of Capital

Chapter I: Man and Nature

Chapter II: The Nature of Capital

Chapter III: Historical Development of the Conception

Chapter IV: The True Conception of Capital

Chapter V: The Competing Conceptions of Capital

Chapter VI: Social and Private Capital

Book II: Capital as Instrument of Production

Chapter I: Introductory

Chapter II: Capitalist Production

Chapter III: The Function of Capital in Production

Chapter IV: The Theory of the Formation of Capital

Chapter V: Formation of Capital in A Community

Chapter VI: Possible Objections

Book III: Value

Chapter I: The Two Conceptions of Value

Chapter II: Nature and Origin of Subjective Value

Chapter III: The Amount of Value

Chapter IV: The Marginal Utility

Chapter V: Complications

Chapter VI: What Determines Marginal Utility

Chapter VII: Alternative Uses

Chapter VIII: Subjective Exchange Value

Chapter IX: The Value of Complementary Goods

Chapter X: The Value of Productive Goods. Value and Costs

Book IV: Price

Chapter I the Fundamental Law

Chapter II Isolated Exchange

Chapter III One-Sided Competition

Chapter IV: Two-Sided Competition

Chapter V: The Law of Supply and Demand

Chapter VI: The Individual Determinants of Price

Chapter VII: The Law of Costs

Book V: Present and Future

Chapter I: Present and Future in Economic LIfe

Chapter II: Differences in Want and Provision for Want

Chapter III: Underestimate of the Future

Chapter IV: The Technical Superiority of Present Goods

Chapter V: Co-Operation of the Three Factors

Book VI: The Source of Interest

Chapter I: The Loan and Loan Interest

Chapter II: The Profit of Capitalist Undertaking. Principles of Explanation

Chapter III: The Profit of Capitalist Undertaking. Complications

Chapter IV: The Profit of Capitalist Undertaking. the Labour Market

Chapter V: The Profit of Capitalist Undertaking. the General Subsistence Market

Chapter VI: The Profit of Capitalist Undertaking. the General Subsistence Market -- (continued)

Chapter VII: Interest from Durable Goods

Chapter VIII: Interest from Durable Goods -- (continued)

Chapter IX: Results

Chapter X: Interest Under Socialism

Book VII: The Rate of Interest

Chapter I: The Rate in Isolated Exchange

Chapter II: The Rate in Market Transactions

Chapter III: The Rate in Market Transactions -- (continued)

Chapter IV: The Market for Capital in Its Full Development

Chapter V: The Market for Capital in Its Full Development (continued)

Appendix to Page 327: Amount of Subsistence Fund Necessary Before Entering on A Production Period of Given Length

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Shorter Classics
by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. 378 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

General Foreword by Present Publisher

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Biographical Sketch Of Eugen Von BÖhm-Bawerk

I: The Austrian Economists

II: Whether Legal Rights And Relationships Are Economic Goods

Publisher's Preface to English Translation

Publisher's Note on Translator

Author's Preface

Chapter I: Historical and Doctrinal Comments on The Goods Concept and on Categories of Goods

Chapter II: The General Function of Legal Rights in Man's Economy; More Specifically, the Function Of Property Rights and Their Position With Respect to Material Goods

Chapter VI: An Analysis of "Relationships" as "Goods"

III: Control Or Economic Law?

Translator's Preface

Chapter I: The Extent and Nature of the Influence Of Institutional Controls Versus the Natural Course of Economic Phenomena

Chapter II: The Question Whether "Control" Asserts Itself In Conformity with or in Contradiction To Economic Laws

Chapter IV: Examination of the Permanence of Gains Obtained by the Exercise of Power or Control

IV: Unresolved Contradiction In The Marxian Economic System

Contents

Introduction

Chapter II: The Theory of the Average Rate of Profit And of the Price of Production

Chapter III: The Question of the Contradiction

Chapter V: Werner Sombart's Apology

V: The Ultimate Standard of Value
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Capital and Interest , Vol. 3
by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. 244 pgs.

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I: Further Explanations And Proofs of the Rule of Greater Productivity of the Roundabout Ways of Capitalist Production

II: Concerning the Relative Frequency of Inventions That Lengthen or Shorten The Customary Production Period

III: On Certain Epistemological Objections Against My Thesis Of The Higher Productivity Of Longer Roundabout Methods Of Produci'Ion

IV: Concerning the Bearing Of "Selection" on the Greater Productivity of Longer Roundabout Methods Of Production

V: Is "Production with More Capital Per Capita" Identical With "Production by Longer Roundabout Methods?"

VI: A Reply to Dr. Robert Meyer's Objections to My Critique Of the Exploitation Theory

VII: On the Theory of Value Of Complementary Goods And The Theory of Imputation

VIII: On the Value of Producers' Goods and the Relationship Between Value and Costs

IX: On the Role of Disutility In the Value Theory

X: On the "Measurability" Of Sensations

XI: On the Motivation of Present Economic Actions by Future Wants

XII: On the Relationship Between The "Third Reason" for Higher Valuation of Present Goods And The Two Other Reasons

XIII: On the Historical Development Of the Theory of Durable Goods Within the Capital Theory. Some Critical Remarks On The Interest Theories By Cassel and Landry.

XIV: On the Size of the Initial Fund That is Necessary for A Production Period Of A Certain Duration

Notes

Index of Authors
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Selected Papers on Economic Theory ("Bohm-Bawerk's Theory Of Capital" begins on p. 76)
by Knut Wicksell. 294 pgs.

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: WICKSELL'S LIFE AND WORK1

I: TWO EARLY LECTURES

Ends and Means In Economics1

The Influence of the Rate Of Interest on Commodity Prices1

II: THEORY OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Marginal Productivity as The Basis of Distribution In Economics1

The 'Critical Point' in the Law Of Decreasing Agricultural Productivity1

III: ON THE WORK OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Vilfredo Pareto's: COURS D'ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE

Vilfredo Pareto's: MANUEL D'ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE1

BÖhm-Bawerk's Theory Of Capital1

Carl Menger1

The New Edition of Menger's GrundsÄtze1

Mathematical Economics1

IV: FOREIGN TRADE PROBLEMS

The Riddle of Foreign Exchanges1

Protection and Free Trade1

An Object-Lesson in The Tariff Question1

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The Development of Economic Thought: Great Economists in Perspective (Includes "Schumpeter on Bohm-Bawerk")
by Henry William Spiegel. 811 pgs.

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Foreword

Editor's Preface

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The Dawn of Economic Science

Aristotle on Plato

Tawney on Medieval Economic Thought

Heckscher on Mercantilism

Jevons on Cantillon

Einaudi on Galiani

Smith on the Physiocrats

Marx on the Physiocrats

The Classical School

Douglas on Smith

Bonar, Fay, and Keynes on Malthus

Mcculloch on Ricardo

Marshall on Ricardo

Mill on Bentham

Viner on Bentham and Mill

Cairnes on Bastiat

List on Say

Socialists and Reformers

Halévy on Sismondi

Foxwell on Ricardian Socialists

Cole on Owen

Veblen on Marx

Hobson on George

Tawney on the Webbs

Historical and Institutional Approaches

Schmoller on Roscher

Mitchell on Veblen

Perlman on Commons

Burns on Mitchell

The Rise of Marginalism

Schneider on ThÜnen

Fisher on Cournot

Walras on Gossen

Keynes on Jevons

Hayek on Menger

Hayek on Wieser

Schumpeter on Bohm-Bawerk

Hicks on Walras

J. M. Clark on J. B. Clark

INTRODUCTION

The Growth of Modern Economics

Bowley on Edgeworth

Demaria on Pareto

Frisch on Wicksell

Robbins on Wicksteed

Viner on Marshall

Haberler on Schumpeter

Samuelson on Keynes

Colin Clark on Pigou

Index
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Introduction to the Theory of Interest (Chap. 2 "Bohm-Bawerk's Review and Criticism of Earlier Doctrines" and Chap. 3 "The Theory of Bohm-Bawerk")
by Joseph W. Conard. 382 pgs.

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BUREAU OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I: INTRODUCTION: THE RELEVANCE AND NATURE OF INTEREST AND INTEREST THEORY

PART ONE: NONMONETARY THEORIES OF INTEREST

II: BOEHM-BAWERK's REVIEW AND CRITICISM OF EARLIER DOCTRINES

III: THE THEORY OF BOEHM-BAWERK

IV: IRVING FISHER'S THEORY OF INTEREST

V: OTHER NONMONETARY THEORIES OF INTEREST

VI: THE DESIRABILITY OF INTEREST

VII: NONMONETARY THEORIES OF INTEREST: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Part Two: MONETARY THEORIES OF INTEREST

VIII: MONEY RATES, OWN-RATES, AND REAL RATES OF INTEREST

IX: SKETCH OF LOANABLE-FUNDS AND LIQUIDITY-PREFERENCE THEORIES OF INTEREST

X: AN APPARENT DIGRESSON ON SWEDISH AND ROBERTSONIAN CONCEPTS

XI: THE RATE OF INTEREST AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM: A KEYNESIAN MODEL ASSUMING CONSTANT PRICES

XIII: INTEREST THEORY AND PRICE VARIABILITY

PART THREE: THE TERM STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES

XIV: INTRODUCTION TO RATE STRUCTURE

XV: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

XVI: EMPIRICAL TESTS OF THE THEORY OF RATE STRUCTURE

XVII: RATE STRUCTURE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

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Carl Menger and His Legacy in Economics (Includes "Austrian Capital Theory: The Early Controversies")
by Bruce J. Caldwell. 407 pgs.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Editor's Introduction

The Papers of Carl Menger in the Special Collections Department, William R. Perkins LIbrary, Duke University

I. Origins and Economic Policy

The Cameralistic Roots of Menger's Achievement

Menger, Classical LIberalism, and the Austrian School of Economics

Carl Menger on Economic Policy: the Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf

Ii. Successors

Lionel Robbins and the Austrian Connection

Comment on O'Brien's "Lionel Robbins and the Austrian Connection"

From Hayek to Menger: Biology, Subjectivism, and Welfare

Iii. Methodology

Menger's Methodology

A Roundabout Solution to A Fundamental Problem in Menger's Methodology and Beyond

Aristotle, Menger, Mises: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Economics

Mengerian Economics in Realist Perspective

Iv. General Themes

What Do We Know About Menger?

Restoring An "Altered" Menger

Understanding Differently: Hermeneutics and the Spontaneous Order of Communicative Processes

The Mengerian Roots of the Austrian Revival
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Elements of Marxian Economic Theory and Its Criticism (Chap. 33 "Bohm-Bawerk and the Austrian School")
by William J. Blake. 750 pgs.

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Section I: Preliminaries To Marxian Political Economy

1: Historical Basis of Marxian Economic Theory

2: The Antecedents of Capitalism

3: Origin of the Capitalist System

4: Manufacture and Machinery

5: The Proletariat in the Machine Age

Section II: The Marxist Analysis Of the Prevailing Capitalist Economy

6: Commodities and Value

7: The Forms of Value

8: Why Karl Marx's Theories Are So Complex

9: Exchange

10: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities

11: Capital

12: The Enigma of Surplus-Value Solved

13: Absolute Surplus-Value

14: Constant and Variable Capital

15: The Rate of Surplus-Value

16: The Working Day

17: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value

18: The Functioning of Capitalist Production, Or Relative Surplus-Value

19: The Effect of Machinery on the Workers

20: The Total System of Surplus- Value; Synthesis Of Absolute and Relative Laws

21: The Law of Profit

22: Wages, the Price of Labor-Power

23: The Accumulation of Capital

24: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation

25: The Industrial Reserve Army

26: The Tendency of the Rate of Profits to Decline

27: Commercial Capital as a Participant In Surplus-Value

28: Division of Surplus-Value Outside Production And Circulation

29: Social Accumulation of Capital

30: The Theory of Crises

31: Finance Capital, Industrial Monopoly, And Imperialism

32: Money, Investment, Debt, in Present-Day Economy

Section III: The Attack on Marx's Economic Theory

33: Böhm-Bawerk and the Austrian School

34: Revisionism

35: A: Critique of the Exploitation Theory B: the Debate on Accumulation

36: British Critics of Marxism

37: American Criticism of Marxism

38: Miscellaneous Critiques and Objections

Section IV: Sources and Philosophy Of Marxist Political Economy

39: Economic Theories of Capitalist Society

40: Sources of Marxian Economic Theory

41: Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism

Bibliographical Guide

Appendix I

Appendix III: Note to Marxian Account of Evolution Of Manufactures

Appendix V: Note on the Use of Statistics

Appendix IV: Crisis Theory

Economic Terms Employed by Karl Marx And Frederick Engels

A Socialist Chronology

Index
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Clarifying and Teaching Bohm-Bawerk's "Marginal Pairs", in Journal of Economic Education
by John B. Egger. 9 pgs.

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Socialism and Marginalism in Economics: 1870-1930 ("Early Reactions by Non-Marxists to Marginal Utility Theory: Dietzel vs. Böhm-Bawerk" begins on p. 15)
by Ian Steedman. 263 pgs.

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1: Socialism and Marginalism in Economics, 1870-1930

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2: Marginalism, Classicism and Socialism in German-Speaking Countries, 1871-1932

Bibliography

3: Cooperation Not Opposition

Notes

4: Swedish Model Market Socialism

5: Socialism and Marginalism in Italy, 1880-1910

6: Socialist Debate on the Theory of Value and Distribution

Notes

7: French Socialists and Theories of Value, 1872-1914

Bibliography

8: Preserving Dutch Marxism from Rigidity?

Notes

9: Value Theory and Russian Marxism Before the Revolution

Notes

Author Index
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Classical Macroeconomics: Some Modern Variations and Distortions ("Böhm-Bawerk's Capital Theory" begins on p. 99)
by James C. W. Ahiakpor. 254 pgs.

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The Great Depression and Keynes's definition of economic concepts made it difficult for modern economists to appreciate the classical insights. This book clarifies the classical explanations to resolve the continuing disputes.

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