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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk in audio: the life, the one idea, the most famous argument, and which work to read first. About 16 minutes.
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Studies in law and political science at the University of Vienna.[12]
Civil servant in the Lower Austrian Finanzprokuratur (Treasury Solicitor's Office) from 1872. In parallel, study leave in Heidelberg, Leipzig and Jena with Knies, Roscher and Hildebrand.[1]
Habilitation as a Privatdozent in economics at the University of Vienna.[1]
Marriage to Paula von Wieser, sister of Friedrich von Wieser, making him the brother-in-law of his long-time associate.[12]
Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Innsbruck.[1]
Publication of "History and Critique of Interest Theories" as the first volume of "Capital and Interest"; with a detailed critique of Marx's labour theory of value and a rejection of Menger's theory of uses.[1]
Publication of "Positive Theory of Capital" as the second volume of "Capital and Interest"; the foundation of an "Austrian" theory of capital and interest and a decisive contribution to the international reputation of the Austrian School.[1]
Move to the Vienna Ministry of Finance as Ministerialrat (senior ministerial counsellor); later Sektionschef (head of department).[16]
Appointment to the Austrian Herrenhaus (House of Lords).[11]
Full professor of political economy at the University of Vienna until his death in 1914. His private seminar shaped, among others, Mises, Schumpeter and Otto Bauer.[1]
Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna.[1]
President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna until his death.[1]
Studied under Bruno Hildebrand in Jena from 1876 to 1878.[17]
Studied from 1876 to 1878 under Karl Knies in Heidelberg during a journey abroad.[17]
Studied together with Wieser under Wilhelm Roscher in Leipzig from 1876 to 1878.[17]
Subjected Karl Marx's socialist labour theory of value, in “Die Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzinstheorien” (1884), to a detailed and consistently dismissive critique, thereby laying the cornerstone of the Austrian School's tradition of Marxism criticism.[1]
Studied law at the University of Innsbruck in 1884-1887, among others under Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk; at that time Böhm-Bawerk was a professor in Innsbruck.[2]
Studied under Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and took part in his seminar at the University of Vienna; together with Menger one of the formative teachers for Mises' turn to the Austrian School.[8]
Wandte sich während des Studiums in Wien unter dem Einfluss Eugen von Böhm-Bawerks vor allem der Nationalökonomie zu; Böhm-Bawerk war einer der prägenden akademischen Lehrer der Wiener Studienzeit.[3]
After his doctorate he devoted himself, on the side, to Böhm-Bawerk's theory of interest, edited the shorter writings of the revered Böhm-Bawerk, and in his Habilitation thesis renewed and broadened the critique of David Ricardo.[19]
Otto Bauer nahm als Marxist am Privatseminar Böhm-Bawerks 1905-06 an der Universität Wien teil — eine seltene Gelegenheit der direkten Konfrontation zwischen österreichischer Schule und Austromarxismus.[12]
Otto Neurath, later a philosopher of the Vienna Circle, was among Böhm-Bawerk's students.[12]
Rudolf Hilferding, a prominent Marxist, attended Böhm-Bawerk's private seminar in Vienna in 1905-06.[14]
Studied and took his doctorate in 1914 at the University of Vienna under Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk; dissertation on the monetary and credit economy with a mathematical approach.[13]
Wurde als sehr junger Student in Eugen von Böhm-Bawerks Privatseminar an der Universität Wien aufgenommen; mises.org bezeichnet Strigl als „einen der jüngsten Böhm-Bawerk-Schüler".[10]
Henryk Grossmann zählt laut Wikipedia EN-Infobox zu Böhm-Bawerks „notable students“.[14]
Student of Eugen Böhm-Bawerk during the latter's teaching in Innsbruck; on this basis he received the venia legendi in economics in 1889 and turned to the marginal-utility school.[5]
Engaged in a famous debate with the American economist John B. Clark over capital maintenance and the period of production.[8]
Wieser and Böhm-Bawerk were friends from youth and fellow students at the University of Vienna, and at the same time brothers-in-law; in 1880 Böhm-Bawerk married Wieser's sister Paula. The relationship was thus, in more than one respect, a lifelong companion.[8]
In 1892 became Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's successor as full professor at the University of Innsbruck; institutional continuity of the chair in the spirit of the Austrian School.[7]
Als Privatdozent (1895–1908) und ab Oktober 1898 Ordinarius für politische Ökonomie an der k.k. Exportakademie im Palais Festetics gehörte Feilbogen zur engen Wiener Nationalökonomen-Szene um Böhm-Bawerk, Wieser und Philippovich. Die Mit-Übersetzung des Capitalzins-Anhangs 1903 setzt direkten Arbeitskontakt voraus.
Böhm-Bawerk war Siegharts Vorgesetzter im k.k. Finanzministerium (Steuerreform-Sektion) und empfahl ihn 1897 ans Ministerratspräsidium, was Siegharts Aufstieg unter Körber überhaupt erst ermöglichte (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Sieghart).
Schumpeter besuchte Böhm-Bawerks berühmtes Privatseminar an der Universität Wien gemeinsam mit dem jungen Mises (Aufgabenhinweis Pipeline-Briefing).
Strigl wurde als sehr junger Student in Böhm-Bawerks Wiener Privatseminar aufgenommen — Mit-Teilnehmer waren u. a. Otto Bauer, Nikolai Bucharin, Ludwig von Mises, Otto Neurath und Joseph Schumpeter.[10]
As a subjectivist value theorist, together with Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk as the senior official in charge, he put progressive taxation into practice in the reform of the direct personal tax.
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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