Human action : a treatise on economics / / Ludwig von Mises ; edited by Bettina Bien Greaves.

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Superior document:Liberty fund library of the works of Ludwig von Mises
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973. Works. 2005.
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Physical Description:4 v. in 1.
Notes:
  • Originally published: 4th rev.ed., Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Foundation for Economic Education, c1996.
  • In slipcase.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Human action. Acting man
  • The epistemological problems of the sciences of human action
  • Economics and the revolt against reason
  • A first analysis of the category of action
  • Time
  • Uncertainty
  • Action within the world
  • Pt. 2. Action within the framework of society. Human society
  • The role of ideas
  • Exchange within society
  • Pt. 3. Economic calculation. Valuation without calculation
  • The sphere of economic calculation
  • Monetary calculation as a tool of action
  • Pt. 4. Catallactics or economics of the market society. The scope and method of catallactics
  • The market
  • Prices
  • Indirect exchange
  • Action in the passing of time
  • Interest
  • Interest, credit expansion, and the trade cycle
  • Work and wages
  • The nonhuman original factors of production
  • The data of the market
  • Harmony and conflict of interests
  • Pt. 5. Social cooperation without a market. The imaginary construction of a socialist society
  • The impossibility of economic calculation under socialism
  • Pt. 6. The hampered market economy. The government and the market
  • Interference by taxation
  • Restriction of production
  • Interference with the structure of prices
  • Currency and credit manipulation
  • Confiscation and redistribution
  • Syndicalism and corporativism
  • The economics of war
  • The welfare principle versus the market principle
  • The crisis of interventionism
  • Pt. 7. The place of economics in society. The nondescript character of economics
  • The place of economics in learning
  • Economics and the essential problems of human existence.