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Subject: Capital-and-Interest: 35 records

Lectures on Political Economy - Volume I: General Theory

Knut Wicksell
Updated 2/24/2012
Knut Wicksell was a Swedish economist who had an enormous influence on Austrian economics and Ludwig von Mises. This might be his most compelling book: lectures delivered over the course of an entire career, covering both general and specific economi...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 1/12/2012
Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Stock Market, Credit, and Capital Formation, The

Fritz Machlup
Updated 11/21/2011
Economist Fritz Machlup was an early Misesian who wrote this book as an early study in the workings of the business cycle. In particular, he investigates and explains the relationship between expanding credit, monetary policy, and rising stock prices...
Capital and Production

Richard von Strigl
Updated 9/19/2011
Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891–1942) was one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As a professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on Hayek, Machlup, Haberler, Morgenstern, and other fourt...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan
Updated 9/16/2011
The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
Capital in Disequilibrium

Peter Lewin
Updated 9/7/2011
A theoretical treatise is a rare event, a moment to celebrate. This is what Peter Lewin has provided in his Capital in Disequilibrium. Taking capital seriously is a distinguishing mark of the Austrian School. The Austrians see capital as decisive in...
Understanding the Dollar Crisis

Percy L. Greaves, Jr.
Updated 8/31/2011
In the year that President Nixon closed the gold window forever and the US government removed the last vestiges of the gold standard, nonstop dollar turmoil was unleashed. In that same year, Percy L. Greaves, a student of Ludwig von Mises's, rele...
Capital, Interest, and Rent: Essays in the Theory of Distribution

Frank A. Fetter
Updated 7/7/2011
Frank Fetter of Princeton University was one of the great American Austrians, and perhaps the most lucid defender of the "pure time preference" theory of interest in the history of economic ideas. Rothbard learned from him, and then col...
Value, Capital, and Rent

Knut Wicksell
Updated 7/6/2011
Knut Wicksell was an important thinker of the second-generation marginalist school, and here is his detailed commentary on and elaboration of the capital theory of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. It was first published in 1893, but did not appear in Engl...
Interest and Prices

Knut Wicksell
Updated 6/29/2011
It was this work by Swedish economist Wicksell that drew Mises's attention to the effects of interest rate manipulation on the capital structure. This was the first to present the idea of the natural rate of interest, which Wicksell argued can be...
Recent Literature on Interest

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...
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...
Capital and Its Structure

Ludwig M. Lachmann
Updated 5/24/2011
Ludwig Lachmann in 1956 set out to correct the problem that the economics profession had no coherent and working understanding of capital, a concept so integral to economic science and yet not explored at length since the takeover of macroeconomics b...
Failure of the 'New Economics'

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 4/15/2011
Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. T...
The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems

Frank A. Fetter
Updated 3/31/2011
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The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/9/2010
Stimulus or laissez-faire? That's the essential debate about what to about financial crisis in our time. It was the same in the 1930s. In this world before and after the Great Depression, there was a lone voice for sanity and freedom: Lud...
Pure Theory of Capital, The

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 5/15/2010
The greatest failing of non-Austrian theories of macroeconomics, it's been said, is that they lack a robust theory of capital. F.A. Hayek sought to fill out the theory of the business cycle with an impenetrable one, and the result was this remark...
Essentials of Economic Theory

John Bates Clark
Updated 5/26/2009
John Bates Clark was an American adherent of the marginalist school who engaged the Austrians and learned from them. He delivered many blows against the historical school in favor of the idea of pure theory. He was also a prominent advocate of free m...
"End of the Era of Keynes?"

L. Albert Hahn
Updated 5/8/2009
END OF THE ERA OF KEYNES? Relais Int'l and AIS ImagePDF 1.06...
"ASAD: A Sad Development in Macroeconomic Pedagogy"

Roger W. Garrison
Updated 1/29/2008
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"Misesian Case Against Keynes, The"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Time, Complexity, and Change: Ludwig M. Lachmann's Contributions to the Theory of Capital"

Peter Lewin
Updated 1/15/2007
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Consumption of Capital in Austria, The

Fritz Machlup
Updated 1/15/2007
F.W. Taussig The Tariff History of the United States NT...
"Austrian Capital Theory and the Undeveloped Areas: An Overview

Sudha R. Shenoy
Updated 1/15/2007
Shenoy Capital and Developing Nations Adobe Acrobat 6.0...
An Investigation of Inverted Yield Curves and Economic Downturns

Paul Cwik
Updated 1/15/2007
Paul Cwik An Investigation of Inverted Yield Curves and Economic Downturns Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)...
"Ona'ah"

Walter Block
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Capital Based Macroeconomics: Boom and Bust in Japan and the U.S."

John P. Cochran
Updated 1/15/2007
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"The Liquidity of Short-Term Capital"

Fritz Machlup
Updated 1/15/2007
Fritz Machlup The Liquidity of Short-Term Capital PDFlib 3.02 (SunOS 5.6)...
"The Mythology of Capital"

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 1/15/2007
Fritz Machlup The Liquidity of Short-Term Capital PDFlib 3.02 (SunOS 5.6)...
"Professor Knight and the 'Period of Production'"

Fritz Machlup
Updated 1/15/2007
Machlup Professor Knight and the Period of Producdtion PDFlib 3.02 (SunOS 5.6)...
"Investment that Raises the Demand for Capital"

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 1/15/2007
F.A. Hayek Investment that Raises the Demand for Capital Adobe Acrobat 7.08 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"The Mythology of Capital"

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 1/15/2007
Hayek The Mythology of Capital Adobe Acrobat 7.08 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Reflections on the Pure Theory of Money of Mr. J.M. Keynes"

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 1/15/2007
F.A. Hayek Reflections on the Pure Theory of Money of Mr. J.M. Keynes Adobe Acrobat 7.08 Paper Capture Plug-in...

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