Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory
Ludwig von Mises described this as a “monumental work” which “is the most eminent contribution to economic theory”. He further stated that “a man not perfectly familiar with all the ideas advanced in theses three volumes has no claim whatever to the appellation of an economist”. It is a work which made the modern intertemporal theory of interest rates possible.
Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory, trans. William A. Smart (London: Macmillan, 1890).
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- Author: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
- Translator: William A. Smart
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- Translator's Preface
- Introduction
- The Problem of Interest
- BOOK I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM
- 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: THE PRODUCTIVITY 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: THE USE 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: THE ABSTINENCE 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
- BOOK V: THE LABOUR THEORIES
- Book V, Chapter I: [The Labour Theories]
- The English Group
- The French Group
- The German Group
- BOOK VI: THE EXPLOITATION THEORY
- Book VI, Chapter I: Historical Survey
- Book VI, Chapter II: Rodbertus
- Book VI, Chapter III: Marx
- BOOK VII: MINOR SYSTEMS
- Book VII, Chapter I: The Eclectics
- Book VII, Chapter II: The Later Fructification Theory
- Conclusion
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