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The Theory of Investment Once More: Mr. Boulding and the Austrians

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Altho Mr. K. E. Boulding repudiates superficial features of the "Austrian" theory of capital as a matter of a production or investment period, there is danger that his clever mathematical treatment of the single investment in terms of time may lend support to such a position. Examination of the Austrian theory; its main fallacy lies in attributing production of capital goods to "primary" factors, in ignoring organic cooperation of all productive agencies, and in the fact that all are like capital goods in essential respects, 40.— Examination of Mr. Boulding's analogies of population and of lake and stream shows both faulty, 52.— Relations between two views of capital, as continuous or as cyclically produced, consumed and reproduced; necessity of preferring the continuity view, 63.— Basis of production period fallacies is in a confusion of things with values; value production is always instantaneous; it is impossible to treat the production of new capital as the production of its income yield thru future time, which would make the "period" infinite, 64.

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  • Frank H. Knight, 1935. "The Theory of Investment Once More: Mr. Boulding and the Austrians," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 50(1), pages 36-67.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:50:y:1935:i:1:p:36-67.
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    1. Rambaud, Alexandre & Richard, Jacques, 2015. "The “Triple Depreciation Line” instead of the “Triple Bottom Line”: Towards a genuine integrated reporting," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 92-116.
    2. C. Feger & Alexandre Rambaud, 2020. "Improving nature’s visibility in financial accounting," CIRED Working Papers hal-02976915, HAL.
    3. Alexandre RAMBAUD, 2023. "How can accounting reformulate the debate on natural capital and help implement its ecological approach?," Working Paper 8567406c-bed0-4401-9792-a, Agence française de développement.
    4. C. Feger & Alexandre Rambaud, 2020. "Improving nature’s visibility in financial accounting," Working Papers hal-02976915, HAL.
    5. Robert Scott, 2022. "Kenneth Boulding: A Friends' Economist," Working Papers hal-03541619, HAL.

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