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"Present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number. This proposition is the kernel and center of the interest theory."

von Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen event 1884

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von Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen

Austrian economist and one of the principal founders of the Austrian School, whose capital theory and devastating critique of Marx shaped modern ec...

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Time Preference

The economic principle that individuals value goods and services more highly in the present than in the future, all else being equal. This preferen...

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