Well along with my study with Rothbard’s works, I plan on diving into Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk 's theories and books. With that said, what should I read before even touching any of Boehm-Bawerk 's books I’ll probably read Callahan’s book but are there any others that you would suggest? Also who Boehm-Bawerk , I know he provided a very powerful critique of Marxism (one of the reasons I plan on reading him), but, what I mean is, was he a utilatarian or a beliver in natural rights, was he mainly an economist or did he venture into other fields, have any of his theories been disproven, is he main part of Austrian economics, and how pro-market was he? As always, thanks in advance. [:D]
To my knowledge he was some what of a conservative who worried about complete free market capitalism. As for utilitarian against natural rights, I don’t think he was concerned, he was just an economist to my knowledge.
I’d wait until you’ve read Rothbard to read him though. As for other books, Gordon’s Introduction to Economic Reasoning is simple and short. Menger’s Principles of Economics is very good and there’s a study good and finally Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson which focuses more on practical issues.
Anyway, look here:
http://mises.org/books/15great.pdf (chapter 8)
Here are three hours of variously biographical talks. This Mises.org daily summarizes Böhm-Bawerk’s critique of the exploitation theory of interest (the idea that the capitalist extracts an ‘unearned excess’ from the production process). Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of interest was submerged by Frank Fetter’s pure time-preference theory of interest, but see Murphy’s Some Problems with the Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest (pdf, 22 pages), and in defense of it Cwik’s A Defense of the Traditional Austrian Theory of Interest (pdf, 38 pages) – ‘traditional’ meaning Fetter’s and not Böhm-Bawerk’s theory.
Besides the 80-page treatment of the exploitation theory of interest (including the labor theory of value, on which it depends) in Capital and Interest, there is Karl Marx and the Close of his System, written after the publication of Das Kapital.