The Forgotten Austrian: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Statesman and economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk remains one of Karl Marx’s most scathing critics.
Born in 1851, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk distinguished himself as an economist, writing on theories of capital and interest. His work, Karl Marx and the Close of His System, remains one of the most thorough rebuttals of the labor theory of value. But beyond his work as an economist, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk put theory into practice as a statesman arguing against the rapid fiscal expansion of the Austrian state.