Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien: Kapital und Kapitalzins: Erste Abtheilung

Name: Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien: Kapital und Kapitalzins: Erste Abtheilung
Author: Böhm-Bawerk

1921

by Böhm-Bawerk

Austrian SchoolCarl MengerEugen von Bohm-BawerkCapital TheoryEconomic HistoryInterest TheoryMethodologySocial PolicyAbstinence TheoryAdam SmithExploitationKarl MarxJohann Karl RodbertusAnne-Robert-Jacques TurgotUse ValueInterest RatesAncient PhilosophyAristotleNatural LawPlatoThomas AquinasUsuryBankingJohn LockeLabor Theory of ValueDavid HumeJeremy BenthamDiscount RateGround RentPhysiocracySupply and DemandClassical EconomicsProfit and LossSurplus ValueWagesJean-Baptiste SayNassau SeniorCapital AccumulationDavid RicardoProduction CostsThomas MalthusSavingWilhelm RoscherMarginal CostExchange ValueProductivity of CapitalDiminishing ReturnsJohann Heinrich von ThunenProductivityPrice TheoryFerdinand LassalleHistorical SchoolCompetitionDepreciationCapital GoodsLabor MarketAlbert SchaffleKarl KniesMonetary TheoryUtilityEconomic GoodsLegal TheoryJames MillOpportunity CostTime PreferenceFrederic BastiatJohn Stuart MillWilliam Stanley JevonsFixed CapitalAdolf WagnerFactors of ProductionProperty RightsJean Charles Léonard de SismondiSocialismDivision of LaborStatismRoundabout ProductionUncertaintyRationalityScarcityInnovationKathedersozialismusCapital ConsumptionBureaucracyCartelsMercantilism

Table of Contents · 101 segments

Front Matter, Title Pages, and Dedicationessay

Prefaceessay

Table of Contentsessay

Chapter I: The Problem of Capital Interestchapter

Chapter II: Ancient-Philosophical and Canonist Opposition to Loan Interestchapter

Canonist Condemnation of Loan Interest and Its Limitschapter

Decline of Canonist Usury Doctrine, Practical Exceptions, and Calvin's Defensechapter

Molinaeus, Early German Defenders, Besold, and Bacon on Interestchapter

Dutch Conditions, Grotius, and the Rise of Salmasiuschapter

Salmasius's Theory and Polemic for Loan Interestchapter

Reception of Salmasius in the Netherlands and Germanychapter

English Interest Debate from Statutory Reform to Locke and Steuartchapter

Defenders of Loan Interest to the Eighteenth Century: Hume, Italy, France, Turgot, and Retrospectchapter

Turgot's Fructification Theorychapter

Adam Smith and the Interest Problem: Opening Assessmentchapter

Adam Smith’s Interest Problem and the Emergence of Competing Theoriestheoretical

Colorless Theories: German Smithian Aftermath from Sartorius to Cancrintheoretical

Soden and Lotz: Labor Emphasis and Contradictory Smithian Retreattheoretical

German Hybrids of Smith, Say, and Rau’s Late Colorless Theorytheoretical

Ricardo’s Profit Theory: Rent, Wages, and the Falling Rate of Profittheoretical

Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of Ricardo’s Profit and Value Doctrinetheoretical

Malthus and Torrens on Profit, Cost, and Natural Pricetheoretical

Mc. Culloch’s Contradictory Labor Theory of Profittheoretical

Colorless Theories: McCulloch, MacLeod, and French Writerschapter

Productivity Theories: Orienting Distinctionstheoretical

Naive Productivity Theories: Say and German Receptiontheoretical

Naive Productivity Theories: Kleinwächter, French and Italian Variants, and Critiquetheoretical

Motivated Productivity Theories: Lauderdale, Malthus, and the Beginning of Careytheoretical

Carey’s productivity law and Böhm-Bawerk’s critique of its relevance to interesttheoretical

Peshine Smith’s Carey-like explanation of capital profittheoretical

Thünen’s genetic productivity theory of interest and its limitstheoretical

Glaser’s indirect-labor theory of capital profittheoretical

Roesler’s ambiguous account of capital productivity and falling interesttheoretical

Roesler’s Modified Productivity Theory and Böhm-Bawerk’s Critiquetheoretical

Strasburger’s Defense of Capital Productivity against Marxian Critiquetheoretical

Böhm-Bawerk’s Refutation of Strasburger’s Natural-Forces Explanationtheoretical

Conclusion to the Critique of Motivated Productivity Theoriestheoretical

The Use Theories: Conceptual Introduction and Say’s Formulationchapter

Early Say-Inspired Use Theorists: Storch, Nebenius, and Marlotheoretical

Hermann’s Systematic Use Theory of Capital and Interesttheoretical

Hermann on the Height of the Interest Rate and Böhm-Bawerk’s Opening Critiquetheoretical

Hermann’s Interest-Rate Error and German Successors up to Schäffletheoretical

Knies and Menger’s Refinement of the Use Theorytheoretical

Opening Critique of the Use Theoriestheoretical

Proof Topic and Division of the Use Concepttheoretical

Definitions of Nutzung in the Say-Hermann Traditiontheoretical

Material Goods, Natural Forces, and Sachliche Nutzleistungentheoretical

Economic Independence and Valuation of Use-Servicestheoretical

Why Use-Theory Nutzungen Are Not Use-Servicestheoretical

Nonexistence of a Separate Use beyond Use-Performancestheoretical

Program for Refuting the Existence Proofs of Pure Usetheoretical

Say and Schäffle Confuse Productive Services with Pure Usetheoretical

Hermann’s Analogical Proof of Independent Usetheoretical

Refutation of Hermann’s False Analogytheoretical

Knies’s Loan Theory as Transfer of Usetheoretical

Equivocation in Knies’s Concept of Nutzungtheoretical

Common Error of the Say-Hermann Use Theoriststheoretical

Contradictions of Raw and Pure Usetheoretical

Conclusion: Pure Nutzung Is an Irritating Fictiontheoretical

Legal Origins of the Fiction: Fungible Goods and Identitytheoretical

Toward a Positive Theory of Loans: Present and Future Goodstheoretical

From Legal Fiction to Salmasius’s Doctrine of Loan Usetheoretical

Conclusion of the critique of the Say-Hermann use theorytheoretical

Critique of Menger's concept of use and the insufficiency of use theorytheoretical

Opening of the abstinence theory chapter and its predecessorstheoretical

Senior's systematic abstinence theorytheoretical

Böhm-Bawerk's main critique of Senior's abstinence theorytheoretical

Third defect of Senior's theory, later abstinence theorists, and Bastiattheoretical

Abstinence Theory Continued: Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of Bastiattheoretical

Labor Theories of Interest: Definition and Three National Groupschapter

Labor Theories of Interest: English and French Variantstheoretical

Labor Theories of Interest: German Katheder-Socialist Variant and Critiquetheoretical

Exploitation Theory of Interest: Historical Overview Beginningchapter

Historical overview: Guth, Dühring, Mill, and the Katheder-socialiststheoretical

Methodological preface to the critique of the exploitation theorytheoretical

Rodbertus’s theory of labor, rent, capital profit, and ground renttheoretical

Critique of Rodbertus’s claim that goods are economically only labor productstheoretical

The worker’s whole product and the distinction between present and future valuetheoretical

Division of labor, just wage advances, and the special case of the socialist statetheoretical

Critique of Rodbertus: Time, Labor Value, Profit Equalization, and Exploitationtheoretical

Marx’s Exploitation Theory and the Labor Theory of Valuetheoretical

Smith, Ricardo, and the Unsupported Axiom of Labor Valuetheoretical

Critique of Marx’s Deductive Proof of Labor Valuetheoretical

Empirical Exceptions to Labor Value: Scarcity, Skill, and Low Wagestheoretical

Further Empirical Exceptions: Market Fluctuations and Capital Advancestheoretical

Limits of Labor as a Partial Cause of Valuetheoretical

Final Critique of Marx and the Socialist Exploitation Theorytheoretical

Chapter XII: General Character of Eclectic Interest Theorieschapter

Rossi, Cossa, and Eclectic Mixtures of Productivity and Abstinencetheoretical

Jevons’s Eclectic Theory of Capital, Time, and Interesttheoretical

Eclectics Combining Labor, Productivity, Abstinence, and Exploitation Theoriestheoretical

Mill’s Eclectic Explanation of Capital Profittheoretical

Schäffle and Kathedersozialist Eclecticismtheoretical

Chapter XIII Introduction: Recent Attempts at Interest Theorychapter

George’s Younger Fructification Theory and Its Critiquetheoretical

Schellwien’s Modified Abstinence Theory and Its Critiquetheoretical

Chapter XIV Opening: The Interest Problem as a Value Problemchapter

Conclusion: Toward a Time-Based Theory of Interesttheoretical

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