Capital and Interest Theory

Bob reviews the contributions of Böhm-Bawerk, Fetter, and Mises, and explains interest from an Austrian approach.

Bob continues his three-part series devoted to capital and interest theory in the tradition of the Austrian school.

The fallacy that labor-saving machines create technological unemployment has not only been disproved by theory but also by the whole history of mankind.

Bob begins his three-part series devoted to Capital and Interest Theory in the tradition of the Austrian School.

While Ocasio-Cortez has a degree in economics, she apparently never learned the lessons stressed by Hernando de Soto in his The Mystery of Capital.

While Ocasio-Cortez has a degree in economics, she apparently never learned the lessons stressed by Hernando de Soto in his The Mystery of Capital.

What are interest rates, where do they come from, and what purpose do they serve? Economist Jeffrey Herbener explains why Turgot, Böhm-Bawerk, and Mises got it right.

Not only is capitalism not a system of the exploitation of labor, but the real system of the exploitation of labor is socialism.

The so-called "art of central banking" lies in picking the "right" target interest rate. But, there's no way to know the "correct" rate without giving markets freedom from central bankers.

The Economic Theory of Costs contains valuable criticism of the standard neoclassical approach and some original ideas on how to develop causal-realist economics in the Mengerian tradition.