An Essay on Capital

Kirzner, Israel M.

Published by Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, New York, 1966

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States "First Edition 1966." (PLEASE NOTE: ISBNs were introduced circa 1970. This volume carries no ISBN, nor could it. Editions of this book bearing ISBNs were, obviously, printed 1970 or thereafter, even if they are misleadingly listed as "published 1966.") A slim volume in gray cloth. Sections on The Half-Finished Project; Crusoe and an Overlapping Sequence of Plans; Are Capital Goods 'Used Up' in Production?; Hicks and the Stock-Flow Production Function; Knight and the Permanence of Capital; Capitalistic Production as Exchange Across Time; A Criticism of the Synchronization View; What Should a Measure of Capital Measure?; The Heterogeneity of Capital as an Obstacle to its Measurement; The Durability of Capital as an Obstacle to its Measurement, etc. "Despite the author's dissatisfaction with much of the presentation of 'Austrian' capital theory, it is from the great writers in this tradition, from Bohm-Bawerk, Fisher, and Wicksell, to Mises, Hayek, and Lachmann, that he has, directly or indirectly, learned most of what is here set forth. . . . Professor Mises kindly read the final manuscript draft and offered valuable criticism." Author Kirzner was at New York University. 150 pp. including Index of Authors. Here reduced from $455. Seller Inventory # 004419

Bibliographic Details

Title: An Essay on Capital

Publisher: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition