BOEHM VON BAWERK, EUGEN (1851-1914), Aus trian economist and statesman, was born at Brunn on Feb. 12, 1851, and died at Vienna on Aug. 28 1914. He was professor of political economy at Innsbruck (1884), councillor of the Finance Ministry (1889), finance minister (1895, 1897-98 and 1900-06), and president of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. One of the leaders of the Austrian school of economists, Boehm von Bawerk criticized the classical theory of value.
His more important works are: Kapital and Kapitalzins (Innsbruck, 1884--89) , in two parts, translated by W. Smart, viz., Capital and Interest (part i., 189o) and The Positive Theory of Capital (part ii., 1891) ; Karl Marx and the Close of his System (trans. A. M. Mac donald, 1898) ; Recent Literature on Interest (trans. W. A. Scott and S. Feilbogen, 1903). His Gesammelte Schriften (1924) were edited by F. X. Weiss.