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Essays on Capital and Interest: An Austrian Perspective
1996
by
Israel M. Kirzner
Austrian School
Capital Theory
Interest Theory
Ludwig von Mises
Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk
Friedrich A. Hayek
Irving Fisher
Neoclassical Economics
Productivity
Subjective Value
Time Preference
Carl Menger
Frank Knight
Consumer Sovereignty
Capital Intensity
Paul Samuelson
Roundabout Production
Capital Structure
Ludwig M. Lachmann
Capital Goods
John Hicks
Methodological Individualism
Market Process
Resource Allocation
Economic Goods
Opportunity Cost
Profit and Loss
Uncertainty
Capital Consumption
Capitalism
Economic Calculation
Price Theory
Purchasing Power
Division of Labor
Equilibrium
Expectations
Nicholas Kaldor
Positivism
Capital Accumulation
Capital Movements
Depreciation
Money Market
John Bates Clark
Subsistence Fund
Economic History
Production Costs
Knut Wicksell
Innovation
Interest Rates
Joan Robinson
Adam Smith
Human Action
Volkswirtschaft
Joseph Schumpeter
Productivity of Capital
Methodology
Ideology
Table of Contents · 66 segments
1
Contents
theoretical
2
Acknowledgements
theoretical
3
Essay 1 Introduction: Austrian Context and the Missing Third Option
essay
4
The Mengerian Legacy
essay
5
Mengerian Austrianism and the Cambridge Controversy
essay
6
Subjectivism, Reswitching Paradoxes and Capital Reversal
essay
7
Complete and Incomplete Subjectivism in Capital and Interest Theory, with Notes
essay
8
Essay 2 Outline: An Essay on Capital
essay
9
Chapter 1 Introduction: Concepts and Capital Theory
chapter
10
A Digression on Method
chapter
11
Individual Decisions and the Market
chapter
12
The Decisions of Crusoe: Multiperiod Decisions
chapter
13
The Half-Finished Project
chapter
14
Crusoe and an Overlapping Sequence of Plans
chapter
15
Multiperiod Planning by the Individual in a Market Economy
chapter
16
Interacting Plans
chapter
17
Interacting Plans
theoretical
18
The State of Affairs of an Economy
theoretical
19
Some Remarks on the Theory of Capital
theoretical
20
Is a Theory of Capital Really Necessary?
theoretical
21
Notes to Chapter 1
footnotes
22
Chapter 2: Stocks and Flows
chapter
23
The Presence of Capital Stocks
theoretical
24
Stock Demand and Flow Demand
theoretical
25
Are Capital Goods Used Up in Production?
theoretical
26
Hicks and the Stock-Flow Production Function: A Digression
theoretical
27
Capital Stocks and Income Flows
theoretical
28
Knight and the Permanence of Capital
theoretical
29
A Critique of the Knightian View
theoretical
30
Capital and Income
theoretical
31
Notes to Chapter 2
footnotes
32
Chapter 3: Capital and Waiting
chapter
33
Capitalistic Production as Exchange Across Time
theoretical
34
Lags vs. Simultaneity in Capitalistic Production
theoretical
35
A Criticism of the Synchronization View
theoretical
36
The Period of Production Concept in the Contemporary Literature
theoretical
37
Capital and Waiting: Capital as Congealed Waiting
theoretical
38
Capital as a Store of Potential Waiting
theoretical
39
Capital as a Means of Shortening the Waiting Period
theoretical
40
Is Waiting a Factor of Production?
theoretical
41
Notes to Chapter 3
footnotes
42
Chapter 4: Measuring Capital and the Problem of Capital Measurement
chapter
43
The Quantity of Capital Available to an Individual
theoretical
44
Backward-looking Measures of Capital: the Individual
theoretical
45
Backward-looking Measures of Capital: the Individual (continued)
theoretical
46
Forward-looking Measures of Capital: the Individual
theoretical
47
The Quantity of Capital Available to an Economy as a Whole
theoretical
48
The Capital Measurement Problem in the Literature: Physical Goods or Abstract Fund
theoretical
49
The Heterogeneity of Capital as an Obstacle to its Measurement
theoretical
50
Heterogeneity, Quality Changes, and Forward-looking Measures of Capital
theoretical
51
Market Value as a Measure of Capital
theoretical
52
Cost Measurements of Capital
theoretical
53
The Durability of Capital as an Obstacle to Measurement
theoretical
54
Notes to An Essay on Capital
footnotes
55
Essay 3. Ludwig von Mises and the Theory of Capital and Interest (opening fragment)
essay
56
Essay 4. The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest: Introduction and the Interest Problem
essay
57
The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest
essay
58
Sheep, Rice, and Austrian Hocus-Pocus
essay
59
Interest, Own-Rates of Interest, and Intertemporal Exchange
essay
60
The Interest Problem That Calls for Solution: Competing Versions
essay
61
The Existence of Interest vs. the Rate of Interest
essay
62
Some Remarks on Methodological Essentialism
essay
63
Science and Ideology: The Cambridge Controversy and PTPT
essay
64
Conclusion to The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest
essay
65
Notes to The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest
footnotes
66
References
bibliography