Chapter 7 Profit and Loss
Planning for Freedom and Other Essays and Addresses1
“Profit and Loss”
Chapter 5 Capitalism: The Market Economy
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Tomorrow and Today1
“Capitalism”
Chapter 3 Action in Time
Human Action1
1. The Temporal Character of Praxeology
The notion of change implies the notion of temporal sequence. A rigid, eternally immutable universe would be out of time, but it would be dead. The concepts of change and of time are inseparably linked together.
Chapter 4 Society, Exchange, and the Division of Labor
Human Action1
1. Autistic Exchange and Interpersonal Exchange
Action always is essentially the exchange of one state of affairs for another state of affairs. If the action is performed by an individual without any reference to cooperation with other individuals, we may call it autistic exchange.
Introduction
Knowledge of the principles of the free society is not something that everyone is born with or something that we just catch like the common cold. The principles of liberty must be carefully passed on from one generation to the next if they are to survive, let alone flourish. Each generation must learn anew from their predecessors the virtues of private property and the consequences of statism.
Chapter 1 Human Action
Epistemological Problems of Economics1
1. The Basic Concept of Action and its Categorial Conditions
The starting point of our reasoning is not behavior, but action, or, as it is redundantly designated, rational action. Human action is conscious behavior on the part of a human being.
Chapter 2 Action and Value
The Mises Reader
How Unions Used Licensing to Crush Ethnic Barbershops
For far too long, historians who wrote on inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations focused almost exclusively on the victimization of various groups while ignoring the entrepreneurship and mutual aid that took place within those same ethnic groups.
