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Author Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973.

Title Human action : a treatise on economics / by Ludwig Von Mises.

Imprint San Francisco : Fox & Wilkes, ©1996.

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 Axe Special Collections Welsh  330.157 V896h 1996    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 4th rev. ed.
Description xix, 906 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
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Note 3rd ed. published: Chicago : Regnery, 1966.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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. Action 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 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 -- 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.
Subject Economics.
Commerce.
Commerce. (OCoLC)fst00869279
Economics. (OCoLC)fst00902116
Added Title Treatise on economics
ISBN 0930073185
9780930073183

 
    
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