Essays on Capital and Interest: An Austrian Perspective

In three previously published essays and a new introduction, Kirzner (economics, New York U.) argues that an Austrian approach to economics based on the pure time-preference theory offers an attractive alternative to both the orthodox neoclassical and the heterodox Sraffian approaches. In his subjetivist view that traces all capital and interest phenomenon to individual multi- period plans, capital appears not as an objective mass of tools and equipment, but as the interim state in which inter-locking multi-period plans have manifested themselves at a particular point. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.