Human action is the most important book on political economy you will ever own this treatise is the result of a lifelong devotion to truth and the pursuit of the essential foundations of economic science. Instead, it is a unifying process based on subjective value and purposeful action. Widely considered mises magnum opus, it presents the case for laissezfaire capitalism based on praxeology, or rational investigation of human decisionmaking. It was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ever published. But most of all i want to thank my wife for her steady encouragement and help. A treatise on economics, one of the truly great classics of modern economics. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on behalf of classical liberalism. Human action uniquely stands out as a classic in the literature of economics often a classic means a famous book. Bettina bien graves 4th revised edition irvingtononhudson.
In the nearly seven decades since its appearance, human action has come to be recognized as one of the truly great classics of modern economics. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 1128 pages and is available in hardcover format. Mises s writings and lectures encompassed economic theory, history, epistemology, government, and political philosophy. Mises intersplices his famous work of political economy and action theory praxeology, where he considers economics as a subdiscipline of praxeology, with evolutionary science.
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Human action, the scholars edition mises institute. The work is gripping and engaging, and its commentary is wide reaching. In this book mises argues for laissezfaire capitalism and concludes that the freemarket economy serves as the foundation of civilization. Publication date 1949 topics austrian economics overview collection opensource. Human reason is his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing look at the way that the innate human desire to decrease uneasiness is the pursuit for which capitalism is the mechanism. Mises brilliant insight is that the market is not a place or a machine. Epistemological problems of economics mises institute. He earned his doctorate in law and economics from the university of vienna in 1906. In human action, mises starts from the ideas set forth in his theory and history that all actions and decisions are base. It defends an a priori epistemology and underpins praxeology with a foundation of. Below is a metacontents, as it were, which shows how to reach both the books contents proper and also items not listed in the contents, such as the front and back covers and two forewords. In the course of a long and highly productive life, he developed an integrated, deductive science of economics based on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act purposively to achieve desired goals.
The book is as much about economics as philosophy, life itself and the society in general. The unprecedented slaughter of the 20th century was primarily carried out in the name of socialism, the doctrine that government must control everything. I cant imagine how much research and time thinking this required. A treatise on economics, was published on september 14, 1949.
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