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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, in full Eugen, Knight (Ritter) von Böhm von Bawerk, (born February 12, 1851, Brünn, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Brno, Czech Republic]—died August 27, 1914, Kramsach, Tirol, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]), Austrian economist and statesman and a leading theorist of the Austrian school of economics.

E ugen von Böhm-Bawerk was one of the leading members of the Austrian school of economics —an approach to economic thought founded by Carl Menger and augmented by Knut Wicksell, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. Hayek, and Sir John Hicks. Böhm-Bawerk’s work became so well known that before World War I, his Marxist contemporaries regarded the ...

Capital and Interest ( German: Kapital und Kapitalzins) is a three-volume work on finance published by Austrian economist Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851–1914). The first two volumes were published in the 1880s when he was teaching at the University of Innsbruck . The first volume of Capital and Interest, titled History and Critique of Interest ...

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was an economist, lawyer, finance minister, teacher, and a founding figure of the Austrian School of economics. Born in 1851 in the city of Brno in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Böhm-Bawerk was initially trained as a lawyer at the University of Vienna.

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was a leading member of the Austrian School of economics. His major contributions were in the areas of capital and interest and helped pave the way for modern interest theory. His criticisms of Marx's economics and exploitation theory have not been refuted to this day.