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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| 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
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| countryOfOrigin |
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
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| hasEdition |
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
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| 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
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| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
classical liberalism
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economics → free-market capitalism → praxeology → |
| originalPublicationYear |
1949
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| philosophicalSchool |
Austrian School of economics
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| publisher |
Yale University Press
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Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Ludwig von Mises
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Ludwig von Mises → |
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Epistemological Problems of Economics
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relatedWork |