Mises Daily
Author:
Henry Hazlitt
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“Austrian” economics owes its name to the historical fact that it was founded and first elaborated by three Austrians: Carl Menger (1840–1921), Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914). The latter two built on Menger, though Böhm-Bawerk, in particular, made important additional contributions. Menger’s great work,