 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1893 - 134 pages
...the difference between the value of present and of future goods. The statement that "present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number," f would carry with it the statement that a dollar now is • See Marshall, Principles of .Economic*,... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1897 - 500 pages
...point of both systems, — the matter of " present and future." " Present goods," says Bb'hm-Bawerk, " are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number." And he adds, " This proposition is the kernel and centre of the interest theory which I have to present."... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1900 - 382 pages
...purchase of present goods in terms of future goods.2 The underlying fact is this, that "present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number " because, other things equal, present satisfaction is valued higher than future satisfaction. A man... | |
 | Economics - 1902 - 776 pages
...author likewise appears to identify the two when, in his Positive Theory,!, he says : " Present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like...centre of the interest theory which I have to present." This, however, is but the fact which the interest theory is to explain logically. The proposition is... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1903 - 752 pages
...author likewise appears to identify the two when, in his Positive Theory,^ he says : " Present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like...centre of the interest theory which I have to present." This, however, is but the fact which the interest theory is to explain logically. The proposition is... | |
 | Charles Gide - Economics - 1903 - 732 pages
...connected with interest. " Present goods," says Boehm-Bawerk, the principal advocate of this theory, "are as a rule worth more than future goods of like kind and number." The productivity of capital is not the only cause of this higher valuation of present goods ; there... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1904 - 332 pages
...the difference between the value of present and of future goods. The statement that " present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number," l would carry with it the statement that a dollar now is worth more in 1 " Positive Theory of Capital... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - Wealth - 1908 - 316 pages
...the difference between the value of present and of future goods. The statement that " present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number," J would carry with it the statement that a dollar now is worth more in 1 "Positive Theory of Capital"... | |
 | Economics - 1908 - 780 pages
...Theory of Capital" the primary reason for interest is sought in the hypothesis that "present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number." * In this postulate the term "present goods" is applied to those goods which are adapted and intended... | |
 | Charles Gide - Economics - 1909 - 728 pages
...connected with interest. " Present goods," says Boehm-Bawerk, the principal advocate of this theory, " are as a rule worth more than future goods of like kind and number." The productivity of capital is not the only cause of this higher valuation of present goods ; there... | |
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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 . centre of the interest theory which I have to present. 
