Human Action
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Human Action is Ludwig von Mises’s seminal treatise on economics and praxeology, presenting a comprehensive defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Human Action canonical | 8 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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treatise ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
all economic phenomena result from purposeful human action
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economic calculation requires market prices ⓘ economics is a deductive science based on a priori axioms ⓘ socialism lacks rational economic calculation ⓘ |
| author | Ludwig von Mises ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticizes |
government intervention in markets
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historicism in economics ⓘ positivism in economics ⓘ socialist economic planning ⓘ |
| defends |
economic freedom
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laissez-faire capitalism ⓘ private property ⓘ |
| field |
political economy
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social philosophy ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
business cycle theory
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economic calculation ⓘ interventionism ⓘ market process ⓘ methodological individualism ⓘ monetary theory ⓘ socialism ⓘ subjective theory of value ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasEdition | Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ⓘ |
| hasPart |
section on catallactics
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section on economic calculation ⓘ section on human action and rationality ⓘ section on social cooperation and the market economy ⓘ section on socialism ⓘ section on the dynamics of the market ⓘ section on the economics of interventionism ⓘ section on the epistemological problems of economics ⓘ section on the hampered market economy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Austrian School economists
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classical liberal thinkers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Carl Menger
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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk ⓘ Friedrich von Wieser ⓘ |
| introducesConcept | praxeology as the science of human action ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
classical liberalism
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economics ⓘ free-market capitalism ⓘ praxeology ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Austrian School of economics ⓘ |
| publisher | Yale University Press ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Ludwig von Mises