Power & Market

New Book: ‘The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years’

Ludwig von Mises

Now available as a physical book and free online. 

From the Preface by Joseph Salerno: 

The contributions to this volume range broadly over the disciplines of economics, epistemology, the philosophy of science, history, and political philosophy. The essays on economics alone touch on topics as diverse as money, uncertainty, business cycles, environmental policy, entrepreneurship, monopoly and competition, antitrust policy, economic calculation, and comparative economic systems. Based on these contributions, one might be tempted to characterize Human Action as a grand treatise on economics, encompassing aspects of auxiliary disciplines, but even this description would gravely underestimate its scope and importance. For Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that apply if human persons are to engage in peaceful and prosperous social cooperation under the division of labor. Indeed, Ludwig von Mises considered titling his treatise Social Cooperation.

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As the reader will soon discover, all the essays in this book are profoundly inspired by Mises’s vision of economics. It is not coincidental that their authors are closely associated with the Mises Institute, whose mission since its founding by Lew Rockwell in 1982 has been to promote research and education in Misesian economics. It is a testament to the resounding success of the Mises Institute in pursuing its mission that the scholars who contributed to this volume—who were both teachers and students at its educational events—span four academic generations.

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