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Capital and Interest Theory

 

Swift's Notes on Capital and Interest - These are some great introductory notes for understanding more about the subject in general.

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Early Austrian Theories

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Carl Menger's Contribution to Capital Theory by Eduard Braun

 

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Capital and Interest by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk

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Recent Literature on Interest by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk

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The Positive Theory of Capital by Eugen von Bohm Bawerk

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Critique of the Productivity Theories

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Capital and Interest by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk *Pages 111-183*

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Bohm-Bawerk's History and Critique of Interest Theories by Dabchick

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Why Do Capitalists Earn Interest Income? by Robert Murphy

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Mainstream Economists Don’t Even Get Their Dimensions Right by Robert Murphy

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Dangers of the One Good Model: Bohm-Bawerks Critique of the "Naive Productivity Theory of Interest" by Robert Murphy

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Interest and the Marginal Product of Capital: Böhm-Bawerk versus Samuelson by Robert P. Murphy

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Critique of the Exploitation Theory

 

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Capital and Interest by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk *Pages 295-392*

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Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest by Robert Murphy

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Developed Austrian Theories

 

 

Capital, Interest, and Rent: Essays in the Theory of Distribution by Frank Fetter

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Frank Fetter and the Austrians by Matthew McCafferty

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Human Action by Ludwig von Mises *Pages 99-104/476-544*

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Austrian Capital Theory by Peter Lewin and Nicolas Cachanosky

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Capital in Disequilibrium The Role of Capital in a Changing World by Peter Lewin

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Unanticipated Intertemporal Change in Theories of Interest by Robert P. Murphy

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"The Mythology of Capital"

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The Mythology of Capital by F.A. Hayek

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Nature of Capital, The: A Rejoinder by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk

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The Mythology of Capital or of Static Equilibrium? The Bohm-Bawerk/Clark Controversy by Avi J. Cohen

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Capital and Interest by F.A. Hayek *Pages 47-198*

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An Essay on Capital by Israel Kirzner *Pages 43-73*

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Böhm-Bawerk vs. the Neoclassical School by Jesus Huerta de Soto

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Professor Knight and the "Period of Production" by Fritz Machlup

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Hayek vs Sraffa

 

 

Contra Keynes and Cambridge, debates of Hayek, Keynes and Sraffa by F.A. Hayek *Pages 74-120/198-225*

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A Defense of the Traditional Austrian Theory of Interest By Paul Cwik

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Austrian Economics Under Fire, The Hayek-Sraffa duel in retrospect in 'Expectations and the Meaning of Institutions: Essays in Economics by Ludwig Lachmann *Pages 141-157*

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Ludwig M. Lachmann Against the Cambridge School. Macroeconomics, Microfoundations, Expectations, Rate of Profit, Equilibrium and Innovations by Carmelo Ferlito

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Interest Rates and the Structure of Production

 

 

Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles by Jesus Huerta de Soto *Pages 265-385*

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Human Action by Ludwig von Mises *Pages 476-573*

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Man Economy and State by Murray Rothbard *Pages 319-504*

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Capital and Its Structure by Ludwig Lachmann

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A Formal Model in Hayekian Macroeconomics: The Proportional Goods-in-Process Structure of Production by Renaud Fillieule

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A Hayekian Analysis of the Term Structure of Production by Robert F. Mulligan

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Interest Rates and Investment Coordination Failures by Joshua R. Hendrickson

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New-Product Research and Development: The Earliest Stage of the Capital Structure by James McClure and David Chandler Thomas

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The Average Period of Production: The History of an Idea by Peter Lewin and Nicolas Cachanosky

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Capital, Three Dimensionally Speaking by Peter Lewin and Nicolas Cachanosky

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Entrepreneurship in a Theory of Capital and Finance: Illustrating the Use of Subjective Quantification by Peter Lewin and Nicolas Cachanosky

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Testing Böhm-Bawerk’s Theory of Capital: Some evidence from the Finnish Economy by Theodore Mariolis & George Soklis & Eugenia Zouvela

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An Analysis on the Relationship between Hoarding, Investment and Economic Growth by Alexandru Pătruți

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Production Structure in the Context of International Trade by Miroslav Kollar

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The Interest Rate and the Length of Production: An Attempt at Reformulation by Mateusz Machaj

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The Interest Rate and the Length of Production: A Comment by David Howden

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Interest and the Length of Production: A Reply by Mateusz Machaj

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Capial and Reswitching

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Austrian Themes and the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies by J. Barkley Rosser Jr

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The Reswitching Question by Robert Murphy

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Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles by Jesus Huerta de Soto *Pages 571-575*

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Austrian Business Cycle Theory: On the Interest Rate and the Cambridge Capital Controversy

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Reflections on Reswitching and Roundaboutness by Roger W. Garrison

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An Overlooked Scenario of “Reswitching” in the Austrian Structure of Production by Er’el Granot

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An Empirical Investigation of Paradoxes: Reswitching and Reverse Capital Deepening in Capital Theory by Zonghie Han and Bertram Schefold

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Substance and Semantics: The Question of Capital by Peter Lewin and Nicolás Cachanosky

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A Note on Reswitching, the Average Period of Production and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory by Saverio M. Fratini

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Re-switching, the average period of production and the Austrian business-cycle theory: A comment on Fratini by Peter Lewin and Nicolás Cachanosky

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Reswitching and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Rejoinder by Saverio M. Fratini

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Internal Austrian Disputes and Alternative Theories

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Time-Preference and Productivity: A Reconsideration by F. A. Hayek

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The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest complied by Jeffrey Herbener

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Unanticipated Intertemporal Change in Theories of Interest by Robert P. Murphy

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A Theory of Interest by Guido Hulsmann

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An Investigation of Inverted Yield Curves and Economic Downturns by Paul F. Cwik

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Deep Stuff About Time Preference by Smiling Dave

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Time Preference Theory of Interest and Its Critics by Jeffrey M. Herbener

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Interest: In Defense of Mises by J. Patrick Gunning

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Rothbard's Time Market and the Demand for Present Goods by Patrick Newman

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A Brief Defense of Mises’s Conception of Time Preference and His Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest by G.P. Manish

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Comment on “A Note on Two Erroneous Ways of Defending the PTPT of Interest” by Jeffrey Herbener

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