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Human Action
- A Treatise on Economics
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 47 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
Human Action is the most important book on political economy you will ever own. It was (and remains) the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the economics of liberty ever written. This is the Scholar's Edition: accept no substitute. You will treasure this volume.
The Scholar's Edition is the original, unaltered treatise (originally published in 1949) that shaped a generation of Austrians and made possible the intellectual movement that is leading the global charge for free markets.
Mises himself wrote the following by way of explanation of why he wrote the book: "Economics does not allow any breaking up into special branches. It invariably deals with the interconnectedness of all phenomena of acting and economizing. All economic facts mutually condition one another. Each of the various economic problems must be dealt with in the frame of a comprehensive system assigning its due place and weight to every aspect of human wants and desires. All monographs remain fragmentary if not integrated into a systematic treatment of the whole body of social and economic relations.
"To provide such a comprehensive analysis is the task of my book Human Action, a Treatise on Economics. It is the consummation of lifelong studies and investigations, the precipitate of half a century of experience. I saw the forces operating which could not but annihilate the high civilization and prosperity of Europe. In writing my book, I was hoping to contribute to the endeavors of our most eminent contemporaries to prevent this country from following the path which leads to the abyss."
The Scholar's Edition of Human Action is the definitive edition of this great work and foundation of every library of freedom.
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- elvijs
- 29-10-21
Great book!
Great book by Great Economist, thinker and person.
Easy to understand and comprehend if following the thought pattern and logic.
This books tells great truths about humans.
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- Pavlos Moros
- 21-04-18
Most important book in economics
No proper understanding of the economical science is possible without this treatise.
Mises was a gift to the world.
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- Bester
- 23-08-22
A hard slog.
I finally finished. It has taken almost a year off and on. The level of detail and analysis is impressive but I found myself getting impatient on his way to the meat of a subject. I bookmarked a few key points of interest as I went but the last few hours are a great summary of what has come before. The sad thing is the warnings outlined in this book have already been ignored and in many cases we are beyond the point of return without some extreme change in direction.
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