Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
by Ludwig von Mises
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The green cloth binding is square, tight, immaculately clean, and entirely unfaded with slight wrinkling to the spine ends the only appreciable wear. The contents are crisp and clean, with mild age-toning but no previous ownership marks. The dust jacket, printed in green on tan stock, is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. Losses are minor, at the spine ends, flap fold corners and bottom half of the rear flap fold, and a tiny hole at the center rear joint. The jacket has mildly toned faces and a moderately toned spine which also shows minor soiling and staining. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (1881-1973) was one of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century and Human Action was his most important work. Only slightly hyperbolized on the dust jacket flap, This book is the counterweight of Marxs Das Kapital, of Lord Keynes General Theory, and of countless other books recommending socialization, planning, credit expansion, and similar panaceas In this analysis of the fundamental drives to action of human beings, Professor Mises shows why only the free market and free enterprise can produce that outpouring of goods and services that is democratically controlled by the daily decisions of buyers who prefer one product to another, and why it is that every system substitutes the opinion of a small group which determines what the public should want or what is good for it.
As head of the Austrian School, and increasingly out of step with the prevailing theories of his time, Mises concluded that the only viable economic policy for the human race was a policy of unrestricted laissez-faire, of free markets and the unhampered exercise of the right of private property, with government strictly limited to the defense of person and property in the face of a century increasingly devoted to statism and collectivism, Mises became famous for his intransigence.
Mises fled the Nazis, emigrating to the United States in 1940, publishing his first books in English in the 1940s and, despite the unpopularity of his epistemological and political views, had a broad and enduring influence on a number of students and admirers, and was able to build a remarkably strong and loyal following among businessmen and other non-academics. Perhaps his most consequential student, Friedrich Hayek, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974 the year after Mises died for his work in elaborating Misess business cycle theory during the later 1920s and 1930s. Human Action has sold extraordinarily well ever since the year of its original publication. (Mises.org)
Synopsis
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is the magnum opus of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. It presents a case for laissez-faire capitalism based on Mises' praxeology, or rational investigation of human decision-making. It rejects positivism within economics. It defends an a priori epistemology and underpins praxeology with a foundation of methodological individualism and laws of apodictic certainty.
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- Title
- Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
- Author
- Ludwig von Mises
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- British first edition
- Publisher
- William Hodge and Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, Edinburgh, Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1949
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