A

Ability-to-pay principle

in fixing wage rates, 811–812

in taxation, 731–732

Abnormality, 95see also, Irrationality

Absolute, 28, 70, 72

Abstinence, reward of, 842n

Abundance, 234–237see also, Saving; Scarcity

Acceleration principle, 581–583

Accounting

capital, 231, 260–264, 468, 488, 511, 517

cost, 336–347

method of, 214, 301

Accounts, foreign exchange equalization, 458–459, 781

Accumulation, capital, 465, 487–490, 511–514, 518n, 840–847

Acting man, ch. 1, pp. 11–29

Action, human, Part 1, pp. 11–142

analysis of, ch. 4, pp. 92–98

as an ultimate given, 17–18

backwardness of science of, 664n

calculative, 199–200

categories of, 64, 196

causality and, 22–23

changing features of, 18, 46–47, 223

differs from psychology, 12

economic calculation and, 232

economic cognition and, 881

emotional, 16

ends and means of, 70, 92–94, 201–202, 208, 476

epistemological problems of, 4–7; ch. 2, pp. 30–71

exchange and, 97–98

goals of, 15, 315

history and, 59

individual and, 45–47, 403, 719–725

influenced by past action, 502–510

in passing of time, ch. 18, pp. 476–520

insecurity and, 847–849

marginal utility and, 119–124, 632

meaning of, 11, 26, 28, 42, 59, 92

monetary calculation as tool of, ch. 13, pp. 230–232

originary interest and, 524

practice of, 7–10

prerequisites of, 13–16

on happiness, 14–15

on instincts and impulses, 15–16

purposeful, 11–13

requisite of, 22–23, 480–487

righteousness of, 719–725

routine and, 46–47

science and, 6, 21, 30, 51, 57

selfish, 243, 674

social cooperation and, see, Cooperation, social

temporal relation between, 102–104, 490

theory of, 4–7

thinking and, 24, 177, 584n

tool of, ch. 13, pp. 230–232

uncertainty and, ch. 6, pp. 105–118, 249

value judgment and, 17, 491

within framework of society, ch. 7, pp. 119–142; Part 2, pp. 143–200see also, Praxeology; Rationalism;

Understanding; Valuation;

Want-satisfaction; World view

Adams, Thomas Sewall, 523n, 734n

Adjustment, period of, 648–650

Advertising, 316–319, 378nsee also, Propaganda

Age of Reason, 69

Aggression and destruction, 169–173

Agreements

barter, 796–799

bilateral exchange, 794–796

clearing, 472, 796

Agriculture

monopoly and, 367

New Deal and, 236, 384

subsidies and, 365, 600n, 656

Alter ego, 23–26

American Institutionalism, 4, 755

Amonn, Alfred Otto, 631n

Amortization of taxes, 640

Analogies, 114

Anarchism, 148–149, 191, 240, 256, 248n, 579–580

Ancestors, 3, 36, 145

Anderson, Benjamin McAlester, 406n

Animals

reaction to purposeful action, 11–13, 16

use of, 624

Anteriority and consequence, 99

Anthropomorphism, 69

Antimonopoly party, 383

Apologists, 48see also, Propaganda

A posteriori theory, 31, 41

Appraisement and valuation, 328–332

Apriorism

methodological, 35, 65

of praxeology, 32–36, 64–65, 407

reality and, 38–41

reasoning of, 38, 318

science of, 48

Aquinas, Thomas, 723

Arbitration, 770

Aristotle, 204, 845n

Artists, 241nsee also, Genius

Asceticism, 28–29, 87, 178–180

Assisi, St. Francis D', 156

Association

human process of, 147n

Ricardian law of, 158–163, 168, 174

Atheist, 147n

Atomic bomb, 828

Austria

economists of, 4, 120, 492–493

Post Office Savings Service of, 442

Autarky, 163, 267n, 314, 322, 743, 824–826

Authority, importance of, 284, 321

Autistic economy, 195–196, 244–245

Autocracy, 647, 686

Automatic, economic meaning of, 725

Averages, Computation of, 223