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The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School

1997

by Murray N. Rothbard

Austrian SchoolMises InstituteMurray RothbardPraxeologyEconomic CalculationLudwig von MisesMarxismMonetary TheoryPositivismSocialismSubjective ValueTaxationWelfare EconomicsHuman ActionDeterminismJean-Jacques RousseauMethodological IndividualismMethodologyEquilibriumMathematical EconomicsFriedrich A. HayekGold StandardInternational TradeMarket ProcessWelfare StateAdam SmithFederal ReserveMax WeberPublic FinanceValue JudgmentsCollectivismEpistemologyIndividualismPolitical PhilosophyAristotleJoseph SchumpeterNassau SeniorLionel RobbinsUncertaintyDeficit SpendingInflationInstitutionalismKeynesian EconomicsCarl MengerExpectationsJean-Baptiste SayVerstehenA PrioriJohn Maynard KeynesScarcityEconomic HistoryLudwig M. LachmannPhenomenologyUtilityEgalitarianismInterventionismLaissez-fairePaul SamuelsonProgressive TaxationTime PreferenceUtilitarianismStatismFritz MachlupMilton FriedmanBusiness Cycle TheoryNeoclassical EconomicsStagflationEntrepreneurshipIsrael KirznerDivision of LaborFrederic BastiatSpontaneous OrderCentral BankingFree BankingProperty RightsClassical EconomicsDavid RicardoMarginalismPrice TheoryPurchasing PowerThomas AquinasLeon WalrasMarginal UtilityPhysiocracyAnne-Robert-Jacques TurgotWilliam Stanley JevonsJames MillEugen von Bohm-BawerkVolkswirtschaftCapitalismMonetarismOskar LangeIrving FisherIndifference CurvesVilfredo ParetoJohn HicksFrank KnightPlatoArthur Cecil PigouSubsidiesNicholas KaldorIncome DistributionCartelsKnut WicksellDemocracyExternalitiesPublic GoodsMonopolistic CompetitionChicago SchoolEconomic PolicyEconomic EfficiencySlaveryJohn LockeNatural LawKnowledge EconomicsLand ReformLiquiditySupply and DemandGeorge StiglerGustav CasselIndustrial RevolutionMoney SupplyFiat MoneyReichsbankFiduciary MediaJacques RueffCommodity MoneyBank of EnglandWilhelm RopkeMercantilismProtectionismBusiness CyclesCredit ExpansionBalance of PaymentsBretton WoodsExchange RatesJohn Stuart MillDevaluationExchange ControlGreat DepressionLegal TenderWorld War IBimetallismGresham's LawPrice StabilityHenry HazlittBankingOpportunity CostPlanned EconomyFactors of ProductionCapital GoodsPerfect CompetitionZurechnungInvestmentProfit and LossSpeculationStock ExchangeCapital TheoryInterest RatesJohn Bates ClarkEconomic Development

Table of Contents · 95 segments

1
Front Matter, Publication Data, Dedication, and Contentschapter
2
Introductionessay
3
The Mantle of Science: Scientism and the Sciences of Mantheoretical
4
The Problem of Free Willtheoretical
5
The False Mechanical Analogies of Scientismtheoretical
6
The False Organismic Analogies of Scientismtheoretical
7
Science and Values: Arbitrary Ethicstheoretical
8
Conclusion: Individualism vs. Collectivism in the Study of Mantheoretical
9
Axioms and Deductiontheoretical
10
What is the Proper Way to Study Man?essay
11
Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences: The Praxeological Methodtheoretical
12
Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences (continued: axioms, tradition, and methodological individualism)essay
13
Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics (opening)chapter
14
Praxeology, the Social Sciences, History, and Econometricschapter
15
Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policychapter
16
Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policy: Conclusionessay
17
In Defense of "Extreme Apriorism"essay
18
The Present State of Austrian Economics: Opening and Whig Theory Critiquechapter
19
The New Methodology and the Burgeoning of “Austrian” Fallaciestheoretical
20
Misesian Praxeology versus Competing Paradigms: Subjectivism, Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurshiptheoretical
21
Market Process and Equilibrium; Coordination of Prices; Knowledge and Socialist Calculationtheoretical
22
Reason: Exchange, Intention, and Designtheoretical
23
Non-Misesian Macroeconomics: Genuine Money or Counterfeiting?theoretical
24
Epilogue: The Modern Austrian Revivalessay
25
New Light on the Prehistory of the Austrian School: Historiographical Revisionchapter
26
Grice-Hutchinson, Salamanca, and Scholastic Subjective Value Theorychapter
27
Raymond de Roover and the Scholastic Market Traditionchapter
28
Continental Scholastic Influence, Kauder, and the Aristotelian Roots of Austrian Economicschapter
29
Conclusion: Proto-Austrian Scholastics and Menger’s Revival of an Older Traditionchapter
30
Kuhn, Paradigms, and the Social Sciencesessay
31
Modern Social Science, Positivism, and Economic Amnesiaessay
32
The Neglect of the Austrian School and Ludwig von Misesessay
33
Mises’s Praxeological Paradigm, Interventionism, Money, and Business Cyclesessay
34
Socialist Calculation, Eastern Europe, and Mises’s Vindicationessay
35
Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics: Opening Thesisessay
36
A Statement of the Concepttheoretical
37
Positivism and the Charge of Tautologytheoretical
38
Samuelson, Psychologizing, Behaviorism, Armstrong, and Utility Theorytheoretical
39
Ordinal Marginal Utility and “Total Utility”theoretical
40
Professor Robbins’s Problemtheoretical
41
The Fallacy of Indifferencetheoretical
42
The Neo-Cardinalists: the von Neumann–Morgenstern Approachtheoretical
43
Welfare Economics: A Critiquetheoretical
44
Economics and Ethicstheoretical
45
The Problem of the New Welfare Economics: The Unanimity Ruletheoretical
46
Professor Robbins's Escape Routetheoretical
47
The Compensation Principletheoretical
48
The Social Welfare Functiontheoretical
49
The Economist as Advisertheoretical
50
The End of Welfare Economics? and Opening of Welfare Economics: A Reconstructiontheoretical
51
Welfare Economics: A Reconstruction — Demonstrated Preference and the Free Markettheoretical
52
The Free Market and the Problem of Distributiontheoretical
53
The Role of the Statetheoretical
54
Laissez-faire Reconsideredtheoretical
55
The State as a Voluntary Institution: A Critiquetheoretical
56
Conclusiontheoretical
57
Value Implications of Economic Theoryessay
58
The Myth of Efficiencyessay
59
Justice and Property Rights: The Failure of Utilitarianismessay
60
Toward a Theory of Justice in Propertytheoretical
61
Toward a Critique of Existing Property Titlesessay
62
The Austrian Theory of Money: Marginal Utility, Cash Balances, and Price-Level Fallacieschapter
63
Uniform Purchasing Power, Purchasing-Power Parity, Regression Theorem, and Causal Methodchapter
64
General Equilibrium, Cash Balances, and the Social Uselessness of Monetary Expansionchapter
65
Government Inflation, Hyperinflation, and the Case for Goldchapter
66
Research Agenda: Restoring Gold, Free Banking, and Defining the Money Supplychapter
67
Money, the State, and Modern Mercantilism: Introductionessay
68
Money on the Free Markettheoretical
69
Money and the State; Central Bankingtheoretical
70
Inflationism and Mercantilism in America: Historical Revision and First Case Studiesessay
71
Money, the State, and Modern Mercantilism: Colwell, Reconstruction, and Warburgessay
72
Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money: Defining Matheoretical
73
The Money Supply and Credit Expansion to Businesstheoretical
74
Gold vs. Fluctuating Fiat Exchange Rates: The Friedmanite Caseessay
75
Gold vs. Fluctuating Fiat Exchange Rates: Currencies, Gold, and World Moneyessay
76
Gold vs. Fluctuating Fiat Exchange Rates: Inflation, Discipline, and Return to Goldessay
77
The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar: Inflationary Fiat Paperessay
78
Hayek's Denationalization of Moneyessay
79
The Commodity Dollar: A Critiqueessay
80
The Case for a Gold Dollaressay
81
Defining the Dollaressay
82
Which Gold Standard?essay
83
Lange, Mises and Praxeology: The Retreat from Marxismessay
84
Ludwig von Mises and Economic Calculation Under Socialismessay
85
Introduction: Socialist Collapse and the Reopened Calculation Debateessay
86
Mises and the Challenge of Calculationessay
87
The Lange-Lerner “Solution” and the Orthodox Lineessay
88
Fallacies of the Lange-Lerner Solutionessay
89
Mises’s Rebuttal: Entrepreneurial Capital Allocationessay
90
The Structure of Capitalessay
91
Mises’s Rebuttal, Hayek-Kirzner Fallacies, and Lange’s Equation-Solving Claimstheoretical
92
Socialist Impossibility and the Argument from Existencetheoretical
93
Epilogue: The End of Socialism and Mises’s Statuetheoretical
94
Indexbibliography
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Economists of the Twentieth Century Series Catalogue and Edward Elgar Back Matterbibliography