Human action
Subtitle: a treatise on economics
By: Ludwig von Mises ; edited by Bettina Bien Greaves
Contributors: Greaves, Bettina Bien
Series: Liberty fund library of the works of Ludwig von Mises. 2005
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 9780865976306; 9780865976313; 9780865976740; 9780865976788; 9780865976757; 9780865976795; 9780865976764; 9780865976801; 9780865976771; 9780865976818
Subjects: Commerce; Economics
Notes: Originally published: 4th rev.ed., Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Foundation for Economic Education, c1996.

In slipcase.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.  Human action.  Acting man; title: The epistemological problems of the sciences of human action; title: Economics and the revolt against reason; title: A first analysis of the category of action; title: Time; title: Uncertainty; title: Action within the world; title: Pt. 2.  Action within the framework of society.  Human society; title: The role of ideas; title: Exchange within society; title: Pt. 3.  Economic calculation.  Valuation without calculation; title: The sphere of economic calculation; title: Monetary calculation as a tool of action; title: Pt. 4.  Catallactics or economics of the market society.  The scope and method of catallactics; title: The market; title: Prices; title: Indirect exchange; title: Action in the passing of time; title: Interest; title: Interest, credit expansion, and the trade cycle; title: Work and wages; title: The nonhuman original factors of production; title: The data of the market; title: Harmony and conflict of interests; title: Pt. 5.  Social cooperation without a market.  The imaginary construction of a socialist society; title: The impossibility of economic calculation under socialism; title: Pt. 6.  The hampered market economy.  The government and the market; title: Interference by taxation; title: Restriction of production; title: Interference with the structure of prices; title: Currency and credit manipulation; title: Confiscation and redistribution; title: Syndicalism and corporativism; title: The economics of war; title: The welfare principle versus the market principle; title: The crisis of interventionism; title: Pt. 7.  The place of economics in society.  The nondescript character of economics; title: The place of economics in learning; title: Economics and the essential problems of human existence.