First published 2016
The Mises Reader Unabridged
The Mises Reader can be found here. From the Introduction by Shawn Ritenour ... During my time in college, while I was still working through Human Action, I sought out other more accessible books by Mises. This was years before the advent of the internet and mises.org. I had to turn to that ancient institution called the library and I discovered that our college library had a collection of shorter essays by Mises published by Libertarian Press in a collection entitled Planning for Freedom and Sixteen Other Essays. This book proved to be a more accessible introduction to Mises’s thought. I began reading it during my free time and did not stop until I had come to the end. Planning for Freedom turned out to be the first book by Mises that I read completely. As I read, I began to put together an economic and political philosophy that revolved around private property. It was the writings of Mises that provided me the intellectual foundation to evaluate and integrate what I was being taught in school. Looking back on those years, I have grown to appreciate the wisdom expressed in the sentiment by Mark Thornton that one of the best ways to become introduced to the work of Ludwig von Mises is through some of his shorter, more popular works. While sacrificing nothing in the way of sound economic theory, they are more accessible and in any event are not as intimidating as Mises’s 881-page magnum opus. In The Mises Reader, I have sought to bring you the best of both worlds. An attempt has been made to acquaint the reader with the broad spectrum of Mises’s ideas and analyses in a way that is more accessible and less daunting.
What's in it
29 chapters · 173,071 words
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Human Action Epistemological Problems of Economics[1] 1. The Basic Concept of Action and its Categorial Conditions
- Chapter 2 Action and Value Epistemological Problems of Economics[1] 1. The Delimitation of the “Economic”
- Chapter 3 Action in Time Human Action[1] 1. The Temporal Character of Praxeology
- Chapter 4 Society, Exchange, and the Division of Labor Human Action[1] 1. Autistic Exchange and Interpersonal Exchange
- Chapter 5 Capitalism: The Market Economy Interventionism: An Economic Analysis[1] 2. Capitalism or Market Economy
- Chapter 6 Emergence of Indirect Exchange Human Action[1] The Epistemological Import of Carl Menger’s Theory of the Origin of Money
- Chapter 7 Economic Calculation Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth[1] 2. The Nature of Economic Calculation
- Chapter 8 Profit and Loss Planning for Freedom and Other Essays and Addresses[1] “Profit and Loss” 1. The Emergence of Profit and Loss
- Chapter 9 The Nature of Money The Theory of Money and Credit[1] 1. The General Economic Conditions for the Use of Money
- I. The Purchasing Power Controversy A. Is Money “Neutral”?
- II. The Credit Controversy A. The Banking Principle
- III. The Foreign Exchange Controversy A. Purchasing Power Parity Theory
- The Theory of Money and Credit[3] 1. Subjective and Objective Factors in the Theory of the Value of Money
...and 14 more chapters.