Human Action: The Antidote to Progressivism

The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years, Audiobook

Tags: History of the Austrian School of Economics

05/11/2026 Joseph T. Salerno

Human Action is indispensable for comprehending the operation and consequences of interventionism, which is the least understood economic system. The treatise is the culmination of Mises’s long-standing research program, which was to analyze and compare the three possible economic systems—capitalism, socialism, and interventionism—from the viewpoint of which best promotes social cooperation under the division of labor. Almost all contemporary progressives have embraced interventionism as the true path to socialist bliss.

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