Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory

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Translated with a preface and analysis by William Smart

Author(s): Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
Year: 1890

Language: English
Pages: 431
City: London

INTRODUCTION - The Problem of Interest, 1

- BOOK I - The Development of the Problem
CHAPTER 1 - THE OPPOSITION TO INTEREST IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL TIMES, 13
CHAPTER 2 - THE DEFENCE OF INTEREST FROM THE SIXTEENTH TILL THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 25
CHAPTER 3 - TURGOT'S FRUCTIFICATION THEORY, 61
CHAPTER 4 - ADAM SMITH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM, 70
CHAPTER 5 - THE COLOURLESS THEORIES, 80

- BOOK II - The Productivity Theories
CHAPTER 1 - THE PRODUCTIVE POWER OF CAPITAL, 111
CHAPTER 2 - THE NAÏVE PRODUCTIYITY THEORIES, 120
CHAPTER 3 - THE INDIRECT PRODUCTIVITY THEORIES, 142

- BOOK III - The Use Theories
CHAPTER 1 - THE USE OF CAPITAL, 185
CHAPTER 2 - HISTORICAL STATEMEXT, 188
CHAPTER 3 - PLAN OF CRITICISM, 214
CHAPTER 4 - THE USE OF CAPITAL ACCORDING TO THE SAY-HERMANN SCHOOL, 216
CHAPTER 5 - THE TRUE CONCEPTION OF THE USE OF GOODS, 219
CHAPTER 6 - CRITICISM OF THE SAY-HERMANN CONCEPTION, 228
CHAPTER 7 - THE INDEPENDENT USE: AN UNPROVED ASSUMPTION, 232
CHAPTER 8 - THE INDEPENDENT USE: ITS UNTENABLE CONCLUSIONS, 247
CHAPTER 9 - THE INDEPENDENT USE: ITS ORIGIN IN LEGAL FICTION, 253
CHAPTER 10 - MENGER'S CONCEPTION OF USE, 260
CHAPTER 11 - FINAL INSUFFICIENCY OF THE USE THEORY, 264

- BOOK IV - The Abstinence Theory
CHAPTER 1 - SENIOR'S STATEMENT OF THE THEORY, 269
CHAPTER 2 - CRITICISM OF SENIOR, 275
CHAPTER 3 - BASTIAT'S STATEMENT, 288

- BOOK V - The Labour Theories
The English Group, 297
The French Group, 300
The Gerrnan Group, 305

- BOOK VI - The Exploitation Theory
CHAPTER 1 - HISTORICAL SURVEY, 315
CHAPTER 2 - RODBERTUS, 328
CHAPTER 3 - MARX, 367

BOOK VII - Minor Systems
CHAPTER 1 - THE ECLECTICS, 395
CHAPTER 2 - THE LATER FRUCTIFICATION THEORY, 413