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Ludwig von Mises’s Epicurean Ethics

DAVID GORDON

These days, Stoicism is very fashionable, and popular books on this subject are easy to find. Ludwig von Mises draws from a different tradition of Greek ethics, Epicureanism. Mises sees in Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 341 to 270 BC, the beginning of an approach to ethics that he took to be correct. In what follows, I won’t be concentrating on the details of Epicurus’s views but rather on some points that Mises takes from him.

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Human Action, the Way Forward

JEFFREY M. HERBENER

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Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School

RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE

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My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher

HANS-HERMANN HOPPE

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The Challenge of Praxeological Realism

JÖRG GUIDO HÜLSMANN

Professor Salerno has kindly invited me to recount the ongoing impact of Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus on my own intellectual development. In what follows I will first describe how I encountered Mises’s ideas in the early 1990s. Then I will zoom in on Human Action and explain why it embodies the research paradigm of praxeological realism. Finally, I will present how I have tried to develop this paradigm in my own work.

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Property Rights and Entrepreneurial Judgment

PETER G. KLEIN

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Dualism and Calculation: What Mises Taught Me about Economics and Capitalism

ROBERT P. MURPHY *

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There’s Many a Slip ’twixt Cup and Lip

JONATHAN NEWMAN

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Mises and Rothbard on Credit Contraction during a Downturn

PATRICK NEWMAN

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Human Action and the Foundations of Economic Prosperity

SHAWN RITENOUR