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In his Positive Theory of Capital (1889), Böhm-Bawerk elaborated a dynamic, time-conscious model of production and interest, later refined by his student Joseph Schumpeter and further developed by Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig Lachmann.

The classical economists (like Smith and Ricardo) struggled to explain interest. Marx argued it was "surplus value" stolen from labor. Böhm-Bawerk offered a psychological and temporal explanation. He posited three reasons for the existence of positive interest: gia bawerk

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