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Calculation and Environmental Policy: Lessons from Human Action

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A Libertarian Party presidential nominee said he was open to a carbon tax. Mises would have had a different suggestion, and Timothy Terrell explains what it was.

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Human Action: The Antidote to Progressivism

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There are only three possible economic systems: capitalism, socialism, and interventionism. Mises spent his career proving the third is the least understood and the most dangerous.

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Human Action and the Foundations of Economic Prosperity

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A labor economist at the University of Chicago devoted his career to Veblen's institutionalism. When he finally saw through the foundations, he told a friend: all my work has been bunk.

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Mises and Rothbard on Credit Contraction during a Downturn

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Should banks contract credit during a bust? Mises said yes. Rothbard disagreed. Patrick Newman traces a subtle but consequential rift between master and student.

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There’s Many a Slip ‘twixt Cup and Lip

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The engineer and the gambler both face uncertainty, but only one can control the forces involved. Jonathan Newman explores the gap between plan and outcome that drives all economic life.

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

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Mises said the modern theory of value didn't just improve economics. It created an entirely new science: the general theory of human action.

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Property Rights and Entrepreneurial Judgment

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Armen Alchian opened a seminar by reading a paragraph on property. Only one person in the room recognized it from Mises's Human Action. It changed everything.

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The Challenge of Praxeological Realism

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Hülsmann opened Mises's 1912 Theory of Money and Credit expecting a historical curiosity. He found a work that surpassed everything published since.

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My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher

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To spend his compulsory East German currency, Hoppe's only options were Marx, Engels, and Russian novels. Then he found his way to Mises through Friedman and Hayek.

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Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School

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By 1950, the Austrian School was nearly dead. Keynesianism had displaced its business cycle theory, and the profession declared Mises wrong on socialism. Human Action was the counterattack.

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Human Action, the Way Forward

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Mainstream economics starts with models and works backward to reality. Mises started with reality and worked forward to theory. Herbener explains why that distinction changes everything.

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Ludwig von Mises’s Epicurean Ethics

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Mises was a psychological hedonist, but not the kind you think. David Gordon untangles a philosophical position most Austrians have never examined closely.

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How Human Action Shaped My Teaching and Research Career

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DiLorenzo learned more about inflation and recession in 45 minutes of reading Mises than in two semesters of macroeconomics. That, he argues, is the Austrian School's greatest advantage: anyone can become their own economist.

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The Law of Association: Foundation of Human Society

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Ricardo's law of comparative advantage wasn't just about trade between nations. Mises saw something deeper: it's the reason human society exists at all.

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Preface to The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years

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Ludwig von Mises nearly titled his masterwork Social Cooperation. Salerno explains why that alternative title reveals more about the book's ambition than most readers realize.

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The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years

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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.

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How Money Acquires Its Value

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From Monetarists to advocates of modern monetary theory, government edicts give money its value. Austrian economists from Menger to Mises to Rothbard know better.

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America’s States Are Too Big and Too Centralized

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Ryan McMaken argues that the American constitutional structure has become a suicide pact. It's a system that guarantees growing conflict and provides only one approved solution: more centralized power in Washington.

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Why young and old men are leaving the labor force at record rates

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On top of mounting numbers of retirees, record numbers of young men are claiming to be disabled or sick.

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Coordination, Not Conflict: What Hayek Got Right About Social Order

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There is a recurring temptation in political economy to reduce social order to a problem of conflict rather than recognizing the significance of voluntary cooperation.

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