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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

Ludwig von Mises

Can the whole of economics, from money and prices to the role of government, be built from the simple fact that people act, as Mises argues?

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Author
Ludwig von Mises

Why read it

  • You will see that acting and facing an uncertain future are one problem, and plan with that in mind
  • You will understand why money prices let people compare plans and tell profit from loss
  • You will be able to weigh the argument that an economy without market prices cannot calculate

Who it is for

  • Students who want the Austrian view in its own words
  • Readers weighing markets against central planning
  • Anyone testing their views on money and state intervention

Contents

  1. Introduction to the Scholar's Edition
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. Part One. Human Action
  5. Chapter I. Acting Man
  6. Chapter II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action
  7. Chapter III. Economics and the Revolt Against Reason
  8. Chapter IV. A First Analysis of the Category of Action
  9. Chapter V. Time
  10. Chapter VI. Uncertainty
  11. Chapter VII. Action Within the World
  12. Part Two. Action Within the Framework of Society
  13. Chapter VIII. Human Society
  14. Chapter IX. The Role of Ideas
  15. Chapter X. Exchange Within Society
  16. Part Three. Economic Calculation
  17. Chapter XI. Valuation Without Calculation
  18. Chapter XII. The Sphere of Economic Calculation
  19. Chapter XIII. Monetary Calculation as a Tool of Action
  20. Part Four. Catallactics or Economics of the Market Society
  21. Chapter XIV. The Scope and Method of Catallactics
  22. Chapter XV. The Market
  23. Chapter XVI. Prices
  24. Chapter XVII. Indirect Exchange
  25. Chapter XVIII. Action in the Passing of Time
  26. Chapter XIX. The Rate of Interest
  27. Chapter XX. Interest, Credit Expansion, and the Trade Cycle
  28. Chapter XXI. Work and Wages
  29. Chapter XXII. The Nonhuman Original Factors of Production
  30. Chapter XXIII. The Data of the Market
  31. Chapter XXIV. Harmony and Conflict of Interests
  32. Part Five. Social Cooperation Without a Market
  33. Chapter XXV. The Imaginary Construction of a Socialist Society
  34. Chapter XXVI. The Impossibility of Economic Calculation Under Socialism
  35. Part Six. The Hampered Market Economy
  36. Chapter XXVII. The Government and the Market
  37. Chapter XXVIII. Interference by Taxation
  38. Chapter XXIX. Restriction of Production
  39. Chapter XXX. Interference with the Structure of Prices
  40. Chapter XXXI. Currency and Credit Manipulation
  41. Chapter XXXII. Confiscation and Redistribution
  42. Chapter XXXIII. Syndicalism and Corporativism
  43. Chapter XXXIV. The Economics of War
  44. Chapter XXXV. The Welfare Principle Versus the Market Principle
  45. Chapter XXXVI. The Crisis of Interventionism
  46. Chapter XXXVII. The Nondescript Character of Economics
  47. Chapter XXXVIII. The Place of Economics in Learning
  48. Chapter XXXIX. Economics and the Essential Problems of Human Existence
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  60. L

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