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(1881-1973)
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Editor/Trans.
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First Pub. Date
1949
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Publisher/Edition
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education
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Pub. Date
1996
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Comments
4th revised edition. Foreword by Bettina Bien Greaves.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| Cover Table of Contents |
| About the Book and Author |
| Foreword to Fourth Edition, by Bettina Bien Greaves |
| Foreword to the Third Edition |
| Introduction |
| Part ONE HUMAN ACTION |
| I. Acting Man |
| II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action |
| III. Economics and the Revolt Against Reason |
| IV. A First Analysis of the Category of Action |
| V. Time |
| VI. Uncertainty |
| VII. Action Within the World |
| Part TWO ACTION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SOCIETY |
| VIII. Human Society |
| IX. The Role of Ideas |
| X. Exchange Within Society |
| Part THREE ECONOMIC CALCULATION |
| XI. Valuation Without Calculation |
| XII. The Sphere of Economic Calculation |
| XIII. Monetary Calculation as a Tool of Action |
| Part FOUR CATALLACTICS OR ECONOMICS OF THE MARKET SOCIETY |
| XIV. The Scope and Method of Catallactics |
| XV. The Market |
| XVI. Prices |
| XVII. Indirect Exchange |
| XVIII. Action in the Passing of Time |
| XIX. Interest |
| XX. Interest, Credit Expansion, and the Trade Cycle |
| XXI. Work and Wages |
| XXII. The Nonhuman Original Factors of Production |
| XXIII. The Data of the Market |
| XXIV. Harmony and Conflict of Interests |
| Part FIVE SOCIAL COOPERATION WITHOUT A MARKET |
| XXV. The Imaginary Construction of a Socialist Society |
| XXVI. The Impossibility of Economic Calculation Under Socialism |
| Part SIX THE HAMPERED MARKET ECONOMY |
| XXVII. The Government and the Market |
| XXVIII. Interference by Taxation |
| XXIX. Restriction of Production |
| XXX. Interference with the Structure of Prices |
| XXXI. Currency and Credit Manipulation |
| XXXII. Confiscation and Redistribution |
| XXXIII. Syndicalism and Corporativism |
| XXXIV. The Economics of War |
| XXXV. The Welfare Principle Versus the Market Principle |
| XXXVI. The Crisis of Interventionism |
| Part SEVEN THE PLACE OF ECONOMICS IN SOCIETY |
| XXXVII. The Nondescript Character of Economics |
| XXXVIII. The Place of Economics in Learning |
| XXXIX. Economics and the Essential Problems of Human Existence |
| Footnotes |
The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.