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Mises says, "Life itself is exposed to many risks. At any moment it is endangered by disastrous accidents which cannot be controlled, or at least not…
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Dualism and Calculation: What Mises Taught Me about Economics and Capitalism
All human values are offered for option. All ends and all means, both material and ideal issues, the sublime and the base, the noble and the ignoble,…
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Property Rights and Entrepreneurial Judgment
Alchian began his seminar by reading a paragraph. It was a paragraph about property, and he asked if anyone in the group could identify it. I was the…
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The Challenge of Praxeological Realism
I thought that before turning to the present-day literature, it would be helpful to take a look at the state of monetary thought at the outset of Wor…
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My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher
While he was never mentioned in West German economic textbooks, his name figured prominently in Commie East Germany. In one of these textbooks, you c…
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Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School
Keynesian macroeconomics had displaced Austrian business cycle theory and solidly established itself as mainstream macroeconomics. Meanwhile, most of…
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Human Action, the Way Forward
The Misesian approach starts with the universal, realistic facts of human persons from which the logic of human action can be deduced. In moving from…
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Ludwig von Mises's Epicurean Ethics
To understand Mises's position on ethics, it is essential to bear in mind that he is a psychological hedonist. He thinks everyone is always motivated…
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How Human Action Shaped My Teaching and Research Career
This, of course, is great news for the Austrian School, where anyone in the world can do what Gordon Tullock did and become his own economist by read…
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The Law of Association: Foundation of Human Society
In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises transforms the law of comparative advantage from a tool used to analyze international trade questions to a tool use…
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