Before economists and sociologists came up with their own definitions of the term "capital", it was commonly understood as money invested in businesses by their owners or shareholders, and it continues to be understood this way in everyday business practice. In a recent article, Geoffrey Hodgson...

The common interpretation of Carl Menger's take on capital theory rests upon a few sentences in his Principles of Economics. His later monograph on the topic, Zur Theorie des Kapitals (A contribution to the theory of capital), is more or less ignored, although it must be seen as a recantation of...

The paper deals with the continuities and discontinuities between some classical, Austrian and neo-Austrian authors with regard first to the theory of capital and then to the theory of entrepreneurship. Part I focuses on the elements of continuity between the classical and the Austrian theory of...

Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Forschung zu Internen Kapitalmärkten zu geben. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen eine hierarchisch organisierte Kapitalallokation der dezentralen Marktlösung überlegen ist. Dazu...