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Study of human action and decision-making
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"Mises fought for liberty at a time when all the great powers of his era, political, academic, and journalistic, had turned against it. He never surrendered."
menu_book Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
View Full Quote"Human action is purposeful behavior. Or we may say: Action is will put into operation and transformed into an agency, is aiming at ends and goals, is the ego's meaningful response to stimuli and to the conditions of its environment, is a person's conscious adjustment to the state of the universe that determines his life."
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"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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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig von Mises' magnum opus and the most comprehensive systematic treatment of economics from the Austrian School perspective. Mises develops pra...
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Rothbard's comprehensive treatise on Austrian economics, building on Mises's praxeology to systematically reconstruct economic theory from first pr...
Read MoreMises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
A comprehensive 1,143-page intellectual biography of Ludwig von Mises, tracing his life and the development of his economic and political thought f...
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