www.GetPedia.com *More than 150,000 articles in the search database *Learn how almost everything works PLEASE READ THIS PAGE BEFORE PROCEEDING This is a searchable file which reproduces, almost perfectly, the whole of the fourth edition of Ludwig von Mises’s masterpiece Human Action. Below is a meta- contents, as it were, which shows how to reach both the book’s contents proper and also items not listed in the Contents, such as the front and back covers and two Forewords. Front Cover 2 Spine 3 Back Cover 4 Half-Title Page 5 Portrait of von Mises 6 Title Page 7 Publication Facts 8 Foreword to 4 th Edition 9 Foreword to 3 rd Edition 11 Contents 13 Index 911 Three points to remember: 1) This book is fully searchable. That means all you have to do is press “Control F,” which is the standard Windows search button, type in the word or words you’re looking for, in the window that pops up, and press the “Enter” key. That will bring you to the first instance of that word. 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Economics and the Citizen 7 Economics and Freedom 867 869 870 872 876 878 879 Chapter XXXIX Economics and the Essential Problems of Human Existence 1 Science and Life 881 2 Economics and Judgments of Value 882 3 Economic Cognition and Human Action 885 xix INTRODUCTION 1 Economics and. .. material things and services 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, are ranged in a single row and subjected to a decision which picks out one thing and sets aside another Nothing that men aim at or want to avoid remains outside of this arrangement into a unique scale of gradation and preference... Observations Concerning the Theory of Rent The Time Factor in Land Utilization Thc Submarginal Land The Land as Standing Room The Prices of Land 635 637 640 642 643 The Myth of the Soil Chapter XXIII The Data of the Market 1 2 3 4 5 6 The Theory and the Data The Role of Power... Historical Role of War and Conquest Real Man as a Datum The Period of Adjustment The Limits of Property Rights and the Problems of External Costs and External Economies 646 647 649 651 652 654 The External Economies of Intellectual Creation Privileges and Quasi-privileges Chapter XXIV Harmony and Conflict of Interests... Switzerland, provided me with the time and the incentive to start work upon a long-projected plan I want to express my thanks for very valuable and helpful suggestions to Mr Arthur Goddard, Mr Percy Greaves, Doctor Henry Hazlitt, Professor Israel M Kirzner, Mr Leonard E Read, Mr Joaquin Reig Albiot and Doctor George Reisman But most of all I want to thank my wife for her steady encouragement and help... and Money 398 2 Observations on Some Widespread Errors 398 3 Demand for Money and Supply of Money 401 The Epistemological Import of Carl Menger’s Theory of the Origin of Money 4 The Determination of the Purchasing Power of Money 408 xiii 5 The Problem of Hume and Mill and the Driving Force of Money 416 6 Cash-Induced... the theories, discoveries, and inventions of people of “inferior” races and nations The behavior of people of all races, nations, religions, linguistic groups, and social classes clearly proves that they do not endorse the doctrines of polylogism and irrationalism as far as logic, mathematics, and the natural sciences are concerned But it is quite different with praxeology and economics The main motive... It merely means that economics is a living thing and to live implies both imperfection and change The reproach of an alleged backwardness is raised against economics from two different points of view There are on the one hand some naturalists and physicists who censure economics for not being a natural science and not applying the methods 8 HUMAN ACTION and procedures of the laboratory It is one of the... hundred years, and the practical utilization of these results has succeeded in improving the general standard of living to an unprecedented extent But, say these critics, the social sciences have utterly failed in the task of rendering social conditions more satisfactory They have not stamped out misery and starvation, economic crises and unemployment, war and tyranny They are sterile and have contributed... classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed the genius of reformers and innovators from the straitjackets of the guilds, government tutelage, and social pressure of various kinds It was they that reduced the prestige of conquerors and expropriators and demonstrated the social benefits derived from business activity None . compensate for the pages through and including the book’s two Forewords and the Contents, and then type that number in the little box near the lower left-hand corner of the screen. This is. Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, provided me with the time and the incentive to start work upon a long-pro- jected plan. I want to express my thanks for very valuable and helpful suggestions to Mr 408 xiii 5 The Problem of Hume and Mill and the Driving Force of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 6 Cash-Induced and Goods-Induced Changes in Purchasing