1st Edition

The Early Austrian School of Economics Money, Value, Capital

By Christopher Adair-Toteff Copyright 2022
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the thought of the three ‘founding’ members of the Austrian School of economics: Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, and Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, considering the overlapping and specialization of their work on money, value, and capital. Offering an incisive overview of the work of three important, but often-neglected figures, the author sheds fresh light on the transition from Adam... Read more

1. The Early Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction

2. Menger and Money: Carl Menger 

3. Von Wieser and Value: Friedrich von Wieser

4. Böhm-Bawerk and Capital: Eugen Böhm-Bawerk 

5. Conclusion

Biography

Christopher Adair-Toteff is Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida, USA. A philosopher, sociologist, and social theorist, he has has published widely in the field of classical sociology. He is the author of Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility, Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion, Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion, and Sociological Beginnings. He is the editor of The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch and The Anthem Companion to Ferdinand Tönnies, and the co-editor of The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils and The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron.

“Adair-Toteff splendidly meets his ambitious goal, and he does so within the pages of a book that one could comfortably fit into their back pocket. [He] wastes no space, and examines his subjects with razor-sharp focus […]. I believe this volume will not only be of use to those of us working on the Early Austrian School but to contemporary readers as well, since the contextualization can only serve to further enhance our understanding of later Austrian School theories by such luminaries as von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, and others. To know where we are going, it helps to know where we’ve been.”

- Salvatore Taibi, Cosmos + Taxis