First published 1949
Human Action
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Ludwig von Mises
- First published
- 1949
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 952
- ISBN
- 9781610161459
- License
- Published here by permission.
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- 952 pages, 62 chapters, and about 395,035 words in the edition this archive serves.
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- No. This edition is published here by permission and the work itself reserves all rights. It is free to read and download from this archive, but it is not public domain and not Creative Commons.
- Who wrote Human Action?
- Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economics and a prolific author on economic theory, epistemology, and political philosophy. This archive holds 53 of von Mises's works.
What's in it
62 chapters · 395,035 words · free to read here
- Dedication
- Introduction to the Scholar's Edition
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION 1. Economics and Praxeology
- Chapter I. Acting Man
- Chapter II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action
- Chapter III. Economics and the Revolt Against Reason
- Chapter IV. A First Analysis of the Category of Action
- Chapter V. Time
- Chapter VI. Uncertainty
- Chapter VII. Action Within the World
- Chapter VIII. Human Society
- Chapter IX. The Role of Ideas
- Chapter X. Exchange Within Society
- Part Three Economic Calculation XI. VALUATION WITHOUT CALCULATION 1. The Gradation of the Means
- Chapter XIV. The Scope and Method of Catallactics
- Chapter XV. The Market
- Chapter XVI. Prices
- Chapter XVII. Indirect Exchange
- Chapter XVIII. Action in the Passing of Time
- Chapter XIX. The Rate of Interest
- Chapter XX. Interest, Credit Expansion, and the Trade Cycle
- Chapter XXI. Work and Wages
- Chapter XXII. The Nonhuman Original Factors of Production
- Chapter XXIII. The Data of the Market
- Chapter XXIV. Harmony and Conflict of Interests
- Part Five Social Cooperation Without a Market XXV. THE IMAGINARY CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIALIST SOCIETY 1. The Historical Origin of the Socialist Idea
- Chapter XXVII. The Government and the Market
- Chapter XXVIII. Interference by Taxation
- Chapter XXIX. Restriction of Production
- Chapter XXX. Interference with the Structure of Prices
- Chapter XXXI. Currency and Credit Manipulation
- Chapter XXXII. Confiscation and Redistribution
- Chapter XXXIII. Syndicalism and Corporativism
- Chapter XXXIV. The Economics of War
- Chapter XXXV. The Welfare Principle Versus the Market Principle
- Chapter XXXVI. The Crisis of Interventionism
- Chapter XXXVII. The Nondescript Character of Economics
- Chapter XXXVIII. The Place of Economics in Learning
- Chapter XXXIX. Economics and the Essential Problems of Human Existence
- Index
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