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THEORY AND HISTORY

       Titles in the Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises

       Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves

      The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

      Bureaucracy

      Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays

      Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

      Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

      Interventionism: An Economic Analysis

      Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

      Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

      Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

      On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory

      Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work

      A Collection of Essays and Addresses

      Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

      Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

      The Theory of Money and Credit

      The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

       Edited by Richard M. Ebeling

      Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises

      Volume 1: Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War

      Volume 2: Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression

      Volume 3: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction

      This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

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      Editorial additions © 2005 by Liberty Fund, Inc. Originally published in 1957 by Yale University Press.

      Front cover photograph of Ludwig von Mises used by permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

      This eBook edition published in 2011.

      eBook ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-151-4

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      CONTENTS

Editor’s Note

Introduction

1 Methodological Dualism

2 Economics and Metaphysics

3 Regularity and Prediction

4 The Concept of the Laws of Nature

5 The Limitations of Human Knowledge

6 Regularity and Choosing

7 Means and Ends

PART 1 Value

CHAPTER 1 Judgments of Value

1 Judgments of Value and Propositions of Existence

2 Valuation and Action

3 The Subjectivity of Valuation

4 The Logical and Syntactical Structure of Judgments of Value

CHAPTER 2 Knowledge and Value

1 The Bias Doctrine

2 Common Weal versus Special Interests

3 Economics and Value

4 Bias and Intolerance

CHAPTER 3 The Quest for Absolute Values

1 The Issue

2 Conflicts within Society

3 A Remark on the Alleged Medieval Unanimity

4 The Idea of Natural Law

5 Revelation

6 Atheistic Intuition

7 The Idea of Justice

8 The Utilitarian Doctrine Restated

9 On Aesthetic Values