Human Action. Людвиг фон Мизес

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       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

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      Editorial additions © 2007 by Liberty Fund, Inc. First published in 1949 by Yale University Press. Mises Made Easier: A Glossary for Ludwig von Mises' Human Action © 1990 by Bettina Bien Greaves and reprinted with permission.

      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 978-1-61487-147-7

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      CONTENTS

VOLUME 1

Editor’s Note

Foreword to the Fourth Edition

Foreword to the Third Edition

Introduction

1 Economics and Praxeology

2 The Epistemological Problem of a General Theory of Human Action

3 Economic Theory and the Practice of Human Action

4 Résumé

PART 1 Human Action

CHAPTER 1 Acting Man

1 Purposeful Action and Animal Reaction

2 The Prerequisites of Human Action

On Happiness

On Instincts and Impulses

3 Human Action as an Ultimate Given

4 Rationality and Irrationality; Subjectivism and Objectivity of Praxeological Research

5 Causality as a Requirement of Action

6 The Alter Ego

On the Serviceableness of Instincts

The Absolute End

Vegetative Man

CHAPTER 2 The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action

1 Praxeology and History

2 The Formal and Aprioristic Character of Praxeology

The Alleged Logical Heterogeneity of Primitive Man

3 The A Priori and Reality

4 The Principle of Methodological Individualism

I and We

5 The Principle of Methodological Singularism