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Sadism, 172, 586

Salvioli, Guiseppe, 627n

Samuelson, Paul Anthony, 787n, Santayana, George, 868n

Satisfaction, see, Want-satisfaction

Saving

advantage of, 487–489, 512–514, 840

capitalist, 527, 531, 768, 769

forced, 545–547, 553–555, 573, 842n

investment and, 517–520, 805

value judgment and, 530

Scale

of needs, 96–97

of value, 94–96, 102–103

Scarcity, 93, 236–237, 525

Schäffle, Albert, 697

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm, 717

Scholasticism, medieval, 717

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 28

Schultz, Henry, 349

Schumpeter, Joseph, 354, 527n

Schütz, Alfred, 24n, 100n

Sciences

aprioristic, 48

definition of, 10, 20, 65

historical, 47, 59

life and, 877–878

measurement (mathematical), 55, 218, 347

natural, 31, 59, 173–176, 207, 634, 664n

psychic, 11

social

criticism of, 8

empirical, 49see also, Action, human; Economics; Praxeology; Research

Second International, 152

Security, 612, 835, 841, 843–844, 847–849

Seignobos, Charles, 50n

Selective process of the market, 308–311

Selfishness, 243, 674

Selling

buying and, 324

price discrimination and, 385–388

Semantics, 268, 281, 420see also, Metaphors

Serfdom, 197

Serviceableness

duration of, 476

instinct of, 26–28

Services, personal, 140–141, 234

Seven Years' War, 614n

Sexual customs, 663

Shipment costs, 450

Short run, 82–83, 294, 649, 650, 744, 787, 844

Sickness, 165, 833

Silver standard, 456, 469

Singularism, methodological, 44–45

Sismondi, Jean Charles, 268

Slaves and slavery, 197, 624–630, 817, 835

Smith, Adam

on employers, combinations, 591n

on paper money, 418, 780

on religion, 147n

Smith, Vera Constance, 441n

Social cooperation, see, Cooperation, social

Social engineering, 113see also, Planning

Social gains, 365, 599, 607–613, 739–741, 750–751, 854

Social justice, 671, 719, 849–850

Social phenomenon, 157, 275, 287

Social relations, 168–169

Social sciences

criticisms of, 8

empirical, 49

Social security, 613, 835, 843–844

Socialism

agrarian, 801

British, 812, 855

capitalism and, 672–678, 712

champions of, 675n

critics of, 282

depressions under, 563

doctrine of, 689–691

economic calculation under, ch. 26, pp. 694–711

failure to refute theories of, 6

German pattern of, 319, 471, 687, 713–714, 752–753, 759

guild, 812–813

historical origin of, 685–689

labor and, 137

market and, 335, 672, 687, 701, 712

Marxism and, 260, 265, 267, 67In, 689–691

policy of, 74, 89, 183, 206, 240, 257, 259–260, 672–678; Part 5, pp. 685–711; 808

praxeological character of, 691–693

problem of, 90, 694–699

Russian pattern of, 713

taxation and, 733–734

theory of value and, 6, 206–207

war and, 821–828

writings about, 503see also, Collectivism; Interventionism; Planning

Society

action within, ch. 7, pp. 119–142; Part 2, pp. 143–200

exchange within, ch. 10, pp. 195–200

Great, 168–169

holistic and metaphysical view of, 1, 145–153, 397

human, ch. 8, pp. 143–176

individual within, 143, 164–165, 178–179

liberal, 149, 283, 321

place of economics in, Part 7, pp. 858–881

socialist, ch. 25, pp. 685–693

“Utopian,” 2, 71, 72, 831

Sociology

instinct, 15

meaning of, 30n

of knowledge, 5, 84, 207, 584

Soil

conservation, 652–653

myth of, 640–641see also, Land

Solvay, Ernest, 186

Sombart, Werner, 198n, 744n, 837

Sooner or later, 99, 102, 480, 490, 494

Sophocles, 617

Sorel, Georges, 171, 645, 808

Soul, 26, 175

Sovereignty

consumer, 270–272, 297, 308, 724

national, 682

Sozialpolitik,320, 363–364, 829

Spann, Othmar, 679

Specialization, 69, 311, 620, 870

Speculating, 58, 112–113, 251, 253–254, 300, 324, 333, 454, 582see also, Entrepreneurs; Investments; Profits and losses; Risk-taking

Speenhamland system, 600n

Spencer, Herbert, 198n

Spending, public, 221, 226–229, 236, 242n, 734, 737, 770–771, 843–845, 846, 851; see also, Taxation

Spengler, Oswald, 645

Spinoza, Benedictus, 5

Stabilization, 220–229, 416see also, Currency; Money

Stalin, Josef, 645

Stalinists, 152

Standard of living, 265, 314, 601, 665, 739, 740, 750, 860

State of rest

final, 246

plain, 245–246

State and society, 148, 149

Static method, 248–249

Statics, 248, 353

Statism, see, Nationalism

Stationary economy, 251–252, 256–257, 292

Statistics

average of, 60

economic, 30n, 218

of prices, 326–328, 347–349

Statolatry, 148, 226, 827, 828

Stirner, Max, 151

Stock exchange, 514–517, 790

Strigl, Richard, 262n, 642n

Strike, right to, 773

Subconscious, concept of, 12

Subjectivism, 3, 21, 57, 64, 94

Subsidies, 365, 600n, 654–656, 737, 738

Subsistence

supply of, 484

wages and, 600–606

Sulzbach, Walter, 835n

Superiority, racial, 90

Supply

control of, 357

demand and, 62, 222, 241, 324, 320, 355, 375, 385–388, 398–402, 756

labor, 136, 591, 606–613

monopoly of, 354, 280see also, Money, relation; Money, supply

Surplus, consumer, 385

Surtax, 853

Sweden, prosperity in, 793n

Switzerland

currency devaluation in, 462

monopoly for cereals and, 388

National Bank of, 462, 463

“Sycophants,” 5, 9, 268

Synchronism, 102

Syndicalism and corporativism, 305; ch. 33, pp. 808–816

Synthetics, 826

Human Action

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