these mechanisms are very simple at their core; moreover, they have been clearly revealed by a tradition of economic thought known as the Austrian (or Viennese) School of economics, named (somewhat pejoratively) for its birthplace, the cultural and intellectual nexus of the nineteenth century, where founders Carl Menger and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk established a new way of thinking about capital as roundabout means to more productive ends.
