26. The Moral Element in Mises’s Human Action

CHAPTER 26

The Moral Element in Mises’s Human Action1

SCIENCE AND VALUES

27. Can a Liberal Be an Egalitarian?

CHAPTER 27

Can a Liberal Be an Egalitarian?1

An answer to the question posed by my title depends, obviously, on how its terms are defined.

28. Rights, Contract, and Utility in Policy Espousal

CHAPTER 28

Rights, Contract, and Utility in Policy Espousal1

RIVAL CRITERIA

Index

Index

A

Abortion issue, example of special interests, 330

Absorption approach, balance-of-payments, 276

Academic game

economics, 251-254

methodology and rigor, 233

Activism. See also Regulation

and democracy, 329

hobbyists, 331

judicial activism, 336

Alexander, Sidney S., elasticities, 276

Allais, Maurice

An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science

An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science

An Essay On The Nature & Significance Of Economic Science

AN ESSAY ON THE NATURE & SIGNIFICANCE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE

BY

LIONEL ROBBINS

Professor of Economics in the University of London

Second Edition, Revised and Extended

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON

1945

LVMI

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Copyright

COPYRIGHT

First Edition, 1932

Second Edition, 1935

Reprinted, 1937, 1940 and 1945

Digital edition by the Mises Institute October 2013

ISBN: 978-1-61016-039-1

eISBN: 978-1-61016-618-8

To My Father

TO MY FATHER

Preface to the Second Edition

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The first edition of this essay has been out of print for some time, but apparently some demand for it continues. I have therefore taken advantage of the publisher’s decision to reprint to introduce certain alterations and improvements which experience since it was first written seemed to make desirable.