Theory and History An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
1957
by Mises
Ludwig von MisesMethodologyMises InstituteAustrian SchoolHuman ActionMurray RothbardPositivismPraxeologyCausalityEpistemologyDavid HumeMathematical EconomicsSubjective ValueTeleologyValuationValue JudgmentsClassical EconomicsDavid RicardoInterventionismKarl MarxMercantilismNatural LawThomas AquinasThomas MalthusUtilitarianismCollectivismDialectical MaterialismDivision of LaborIndividualismImmanuel KantAlexis de TocquevilleDemocracyJeremy BenthamJohn Stuart MillSocialismTotalitarianismDeterminismPolitical PhilosophyFriedrich EngelsGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCapitalismClass StruggleProletariatConsumer SovereigntyEntrepreneurshipFeudalismLaissez-faireLiberalismProperty RightsFerdinand LassalleIron Law of WagesStandard of LivingEconomic GoodsEconomies of ScaleAdam SmithIdeologyCommunismKarl KautskyVladimir LeninJoseph StalinTrade UnionsCapital AccumulationTime PreferenceOtto von BismarckLorenz von SteinNew DealSozialpolitikNationalizationAuguste ComteFrederic BastiatJean-Jacques RousseauInnovationHistorical SchoolEugen von Bohm-BawerkGunnar MyrdalProfit and LossPrice ControlsNationalismEconomic DevelopmentWerner SombartMarxismMethodological IndividualismStatismRationalityRationalizationA PrioriFree TradeEmpiricismIdeal TypeMax WeberEgalitarianismAgricultureEconomic HistoryGeopoliticsIndustrial RevolutionLand ReformEconomic CalculationEquilibriumStationary EconomyFriedrich A. HayekUncertainty
Table of Contents · 70 segments
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Front Matter and Table of Contentstheoretical
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Table of Contents Continued and Preface by Murray N. Rothbardtheoretical
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Introduction: Methodological Dualism and Economicstheoretical
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Introduction: Limitations of Knowledge, Regularity, and Choosingtheoretical
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Chapter 1: Judgments of Valuechapter
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Chapter 2: Knowledge and Valuechapter
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Chapter 3: The Quest for Absolute Values (Sections 1-7)chapter
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The Utilitarian Doctrine Restatedtheoretical
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On Aesthetic Valuestheoretical
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The Historical Significance of the Quest for Absolute Valuestheoretical
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The Negation of Valuetheoretical
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Determinism and its Criticstheoretical
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Materialismtheoretical
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Dialectical Materialismtheoretical
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The Class Struggle in Marxian Theorytheoretical
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Liberalism vs. Communism and the Nature of Propertytheoretical
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The Failure of the Law of Progressive Impoverishmenttheoretical
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Concentration of Wealth and Mass Consumptiontheoretical
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The Circular Reasoning of Socialist Inevitabilitytheoretical
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The Ideological Impregnation of Thoughttheoretical
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The Critique of 'Bourgeois' Economics as Ideologytheoretical
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The Conflict of Ideologies and Marxian Orthodoxytheoretical
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Ideas vs. Interests: A Fundamental Critiquetheoretical
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Human Wants, Freedom, and the Socialist Paradisetheoretical
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The Class Interests of the Bourgeoisie and Pro-Labor Legislationtheoretical
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The Circularity of Marxian Materialismtheoretical
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Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Religiontheoretical
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Marxian Materialism and the Taboo on Economic Analysistheoretical
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The Theme of Historychapter
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The Theme of the Philosophy of Historychapter
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The Difference between the Point of View of History and That of Philosophy of Historychapter
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Philosophy of History and the Idea of Godchapter
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Activistic Determinism and Fatalistic Determinismchapter
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Chapter 9: The Concept of Historical Individualitychapter
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The Role of the Individual in Historychapter
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The Chimera of the Group Mindchapter
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Planning Historychapter
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Chapter 10: Historicism - The Meaning of Historicismchapter
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The Rejection of Economicschapter
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The Quest for Laws of Historical Changechapter
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Historicist Relativismchapter
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Dissolving History: The Critique of Cyclical Civilizationschapter
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Undoing History: Linguistic and Cultural Restorationismchapter
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Undoing Economic History: The Division of Labor and Its Criticschapter
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The Challenge of Scientism: Positivism and Behaviorismchapter
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The Collectivist Dogma and the Social Scienceschapter
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The Nature of Mass Phenomena and the Role of the Individualchapter
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Psychology and Thymology: Understanding Human Valuationschapter
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History, Fiction, and the Ineffablechapter
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Rationalization and the Choice of Meanstheoretical
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Introspection and the Categories of Actiontheoretical
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Chapter 13: Meaning and Use of the Study of Historychapter
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The Historical Situation and the Presenttheoretical
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History of the Remote Past and Falsificationtheoretical
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History, Humanism, and the Rise of Nationalismtheoretical
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History and Judgments of Valuetheoretical
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Chapter 14: Prediction in the Natural Sciences and Historychapter
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The Specific Understanding of History and Thymologytheoretical
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Real Types and Ideal Typestheoretical
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Part Four: Philosophical Interpretations of Historytheoretical
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The Egalitarian and Racial Interpretations of Historytheoretical
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Secularism and the Rejection of Capitalismtheoretical
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Chapter 16: Present-Day Trends and the Futurechapter
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The Reversal of the Trend toward Freedomchapter
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The Rise of the Ideology of Equality in Wealth and Incomechapter