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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786365203321

Autore

Von Mises Ludwig <1881-1973.>

Titolo

Human action [[electronic resource] ] : a treatise on economics / / Ludwig von Mises ; edited by Bettina Bien Greaves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, : Liberty Fund, c2007

ISBN

1-61487-837-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1124 p.)

Collana

Liberty fund library of the works of Ludwig von Mises

Altri autori (Persone)

GreavesBettina Bien

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Economics

Commerce

Libros electrónicos

Comercio

Ciencias económicas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1.  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 -- Pt. 2.  Action within the framework of society.  Human society -- The role of ideas -- Exchange within society -- Pt. 3.  Economic calculation.  Valuation without calculation -- The sphere of economic calculation -- Monetary calculation as a tool of action -- Pt. 4.  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 -- Pt. 5.  Social cooperation without a market.  The imaginary construction of a socialist society -- The impossibility of economic calculation under socialism -- Pt. 6.  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 -- Pt. 7.  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.