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=== Introduction === | |||
<blockquote>"It is true that economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgment of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for the attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends."<ref name="humanaction_intro_3">[[Ludwig von Mises]]. [http://mises.org/humanaction/introsec3.asp Introduction], 3. Introduction, [[Human Action]], online version, referenced 2011-02-05.</ref></blockquote> | |||
=== Part One: Human Action === | === Part One: Human Action === | ||
Revision as of 17:59, 6 February 2011
Human Action is the magnum opus of Ludwig von Mises, first published in 1949. It defined a large part of present Austrian Economics.
Contents
Introduction
"It is true that economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgment of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for the attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends."[1]
Part One: 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
Part Two: Actions Within the Framework of Society
- Human Society
- The Role of Ideas
- Exchange Within Society
Part Three: Economic Calculation
- Valuation Without Calculation
- The Sphere of Economic Calculation
- Monetary Calculation as a Tool of Action
Part Four: Catallactics or Economics of the Market Society
- The Market
- Prices
- Indirect Exchange
- Action in the Passing of Time For humans considering action, time matters: there is a too late and a too early. Time preferences affect all action.[2] We create capital goods with longer production cycles to fill our future wants--that is, we wait. The discussion of time preference, and the postponment of consumption, is a lead in to interest.
- 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
Part Five: Social Cooperation Without a Market
- The Imaginary Construction of a Socialist Society
- The Impossibility of Economic Calculation Under Socialism
Part Six: 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
Part Seven: 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
References
- ↑ Ludwig von Mises. Introduction, 3. Introduction, Human Action, online version, referenced 2011-02-05.
- ↑ Ludwig von Mises. XVIII. Action in the Passing of Time, 2. Time Preference as an Essential Requisite of Action, Human Action, online version, referenced 2011-02-04.
Links
- Human Action complete text (pdf)
- Human Action audiobook, read by Jeff Riggenbach
- Human Action Study Guide(pdf), also for sale
- Human Action on Wikipedia
See also: Human Action Comics