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Theoretical frameworks in economics
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"The task of the theoretician in the realm of economy is above all to teach us to understand concrete phenomena of human economy as exemplifications of a certain regularity in the succession of phenomena, i.e., as exemplifications of laws of phenomena."
menu_book Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences
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menu_book Principles of Economics
View Full Quote"Economics is not a thing of the past, nor is it a thing of the future. It is the science of every kind of human action. Choosing determines all human decisions. In making his choices man determines both his scale of values and the means he employs for the attainment of the ends he is aiming at. Thus economics, as the general science of acting man, reaches far beyond the boundaries of economic science as ordinarily circumscribed."
menu_book Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
View Full Quote"All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one."
menu_book Man, Economy, and State
View Full Quote"In short, there can be no monopoly or monopoly price on the free market."
menu_book Man, Economy, and State
View Full Quote"The purpose of a man's act is his end; the desire to achieve this end is the man's motive for instituting the action."
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Menger's methodological work defending the Austrian approach to economics against the German Historical School. This book established the theoretic...
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Time Preference
The economic principle that individuals value goods and services more highly in the present than in the future, all else being equal. This preferen...
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