Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk (February 12, 1851 – August 27, 1914) was an Austrian economist best known for his three-volume work Capital and Interest. He was a disciple of Carl Menger and made important contributions to the theories of subjective value, capital and interest, and criticized strongly the theories of Karl Marx. He was the mentor of Ludwig von Mises. Böhm-Bawerk served as the Austrian Minister of Finance from 1895 to 1904, and was pictured on the 100 schilling note until the introduction of the Euro.

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• Biography of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk on Wikipedia
• Biography in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
• Profile by the History of Economic Thought website
• Online works of Böhm-Bawerk
• Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest by Robert P. Murphy, November 2004
• Control or Economic Law by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, November 2007
• The Law of Final Utility by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, excerpted from The Austrian Economists