Human action a treatise on economics /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis :
Liberty Fund,
c2007.
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| Series: | Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973. Works. 2005.
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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.