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Human action, a treatise on economics, Ludwig von Mises ; edited by Bettina Bien Greaves

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Human action

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Ludwig von Mises ; edited by Bettina Bien Greaves

Liberty fund library of the works of Ludwig von Mises. 2005

a treatise on economics

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