The theory of value structure concerns the meaning of “better than” and “good,” as well as the way in which values serve as a basis for rational decisio

Hartman's revolutionary book introduces formal orderly thinking into value theory. It identifies three basic kinds of value, intrinsic goods (e.g., people as en

Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. Qu

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution–capital–value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the i

Von Boehm-Bawerk is one of the leading economists of the so-called Austrian school. With Karl Menger and others, he has contributed to the development of a theo