All Posts Tagged With: "Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk"
An Impossible Job
Conventional wisdom has it that the more complex a nation’s economy, the more government oversight and regulation are needed to keep it from spinning out of control. It follows that government must grow in size and complexity along with the economy. Apparently, however, our government has become so vast and complex that it may have [...]
24Feb2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 2 comments | ContinuedValue, Cost, Marginal Utility, and Böhm-Bawerk
As Ludwig von Mises’s teacher shows, Austrian economics never fails to fascinate.
14Jan2011 | Sheldon Richman | 14 comments | ContinuedAustrian Exploitation Theory
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk famously refuted the Marxian theory that the employer-employee relationship is intrinsically exploitative. Less well known is that he had an exploitation theory of his own.
6Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 6 comments | ContinuedSocialism after Hayek
By Theodore A. Burczak Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Jul2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedKnut Wicksell: A Sesquicentennial Appreciation
Richard Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College. In the early months of 1889 a 37-year-old Swedish student named Knut Wicksell was walking through the streets of Berlin in Germany when he happened to notice in the window of a bookstore a recently published [...]
1Dec2001 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedOriginal Liberalism
Richard Ebeling is Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College. In January 1914 there appeared three articles in one of the leading newspapers in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, world-renowned member of the Austrian school of economics and a three-time minister of finance. He warned his [...]
1Feb2001 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedEugen von Böhm-Bawerk: A Sesquicentennial Appreciation
Richard Ebeling is currently a professor of economics at Northwood University in Midland, MI. In January 1914 there appeared three articles in one of the leading newspapers in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, world-renowned member of the Austrian school of economics and a three-time minister of finance. He warned his readers that the Austrian [...]
1Feb2001 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued15 Great Austrian Economists
Great economists come in many varieties. There are path-breakers, who forge new analytical tools; there are synthesizers, who discern principles capable of explaining disparate phenomena; and there are debunkers, who root out error, strangling it in its own contradictions so that truth may flourish. Most of those designated great by their inclusion in 15 Great [...]
1Aug2000 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Undiscountable Professor Kirzner
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, whose name has come to be virtually synonymous with roundaboutness (of capital-using production processes), penned the original Austrian perspective on capital and interest. He wrote three volumes (History and Critique, Positive Theory, and Further Essays) over a span of a quarter of a century (1884-1909). In 1959 the 1,200-plus pages of Capital [...]
1Aug1997 | Roger W. Garrison | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Austrian Economics: An Anthology edited by Bettina Bien Greaves
The Foundation for Economic Education • 1996 • 176 pages • $14.95 paperback In my years in academia, I’ve attended many seminars in Austrian economics and even taught a few. Indeed, Austrian Economics: An Anthology reminds me of nothing so much as one of those scholarly assemblies—a seminar between covers, if you will. Led by [...]
1Feb1997 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedClassical Economists, Good or Bad?
Until the Keynesian revolution in the 1930s, most economists taught the sound principles of classical economics: free trade, balanced budgets, the gold standard, and laissez faire. Adam Smith (1723-1790), the founder of classical economics, has been lionized as the foremost exponent of these principles. David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and John Stuart Mill, among others, have played supporting roles.
1Oct1996 | Mark Skousen | 1 comment | Continued-
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