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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
1962
by
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Epistemology
Human Action
John Locke
Historical School
Positivism
Praxeology
Methodology
A Priori
Causality
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Teleology
Dialectical Materialism
Empiricism
Immanuel Kant
Karl Marx
Rationality
Auguste Comte
Valuation
Marxism
Speculation
Uncertainty
Verstehen
Determinism
Geopolitics
Nationalism
Russian Revolution
World War I
Mathematical Economics
Value Judgments
Boom and Bust
Expectations
Economic History
Economic Policy
Institutionalism
Capitalism
Economic Calculation
Profit and Loss
Socialism
Karl Popper
Business Cycles
Classical Economics
Marginal Utility
Price Theory
David Ricardo
Collectivism
Methodological Individualism
Ideology
Accounting
Capital Accumulation
Entrepreneurship
Income Distribution
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
National Income
Competition
Division of Labor
Game Theory
Mercantilism
Market Process
Individualism
David Hume
Democracy
Interventionism
Liberalism
Self-Determination
Coercion
Adolf Hitler
Plato
Political Philosophy
Joseph Stalin
Utilitarianism
Anarchism
Aristotle
Totalitarianism
Catallactics
Industrial Revolution
Consumer Sovereignty
Exploitation
Factors of Production
Property Rights
Saving
Laissez-faire
Friedrich Engels
Vladimir Lenin
Nationalization
Syndicalism
Table of Contents · 55 segments
1
Front Matter, Title Page, and Copyright
essay
2
Preface
essay
3
Table of Contents
essay
4
Some Preliminary Observations Concerning Praxeology Instead of an Introduction
theoretical
5
Chapter 1: The Human Mind
chapter
6
Chapter 2: The Activistic Basis of Knowledge, Sections 1–4
chapter
7
Chapter 2, Section 5: The Two Branches of the Sciences of Human Action
chapter
8
Activistic Basis of Knowledge: Praxeology, Experience, and Historical Meaning
theoretical
9
The Logical Character of Praxeology
theoretical
10
The Logical Character of History
theoretical
11
The Thymological Method
theoretical
12
Necessity and Volition: The Infinite
theoretical
13
The Ultimate Given
theoretical
14
Statistics
theoretical
15
Free Will
theoretical
16
Inevitability
theoretical
17
Certainty and Uncertainty: The Problem of Quantitative Definiteness
theoretical
18
Certain Knowledge
theoretical
19
The Uncertainty of the Future
theoretical
20
Quantification and Understanding in Acting and in History
theoretical
21
The Precariousness of Forecasting in Human Affairs
theoretical
22
Economic Prediction and the Trend Doctrine
theoretical
23
Decision-making
theoretical
24
Confirmation and Refutability
theoretical
25
The Examination of Praxeological Theorems
theoretical
26
On Some Popular Errors: The Research Fable
theoretical
27
The Study of Motives
theoretical
28
Theory and Practice
theoretical
29
The Pitfalls of Hypostatization
theoretical
30
On the Rejection of Methodological Individualism
theoretical
31
The Approach of Macroeconomics
theoretical
32
Reality and Play
theoretical
33
Business Activity versus Games
theoretical
34
Misinterpretation of the Climate of Opinion
theoretical
35
The Belief in the Omnipotence of Thought
theoretical
36
The Concept of a Perfect System of Government
theoretical
37
Government, Coercion, Liberty, and Human Imperfection
theoretical
38
The Behavioral Sciences and the Principle of Relevance
theoretical
39
The Zoological Approach to Human Problems
theoretical
40
The Approach of the Social Sciences
theoretical
41
The Approach of Economics
theoretical
42
Legal Terminology, Property, and the Market Economy
theoretical
43
The Sovereignty of the Consumers
theoretical
44
The Nonexperimental Character of Monism
theoretical
45
The Historical Setting of Positivism
theoretical
46
The Case of the Natural Sciences
theoretical
47
The Case of the Sciences of Human Action
theoretical
48
The Fallacies of Positivism
theoretical
49
The Misinterpretation of the Universe
theoretical
50
The Misinterpretation of the Human Condition
theoretical
51
The Cult of Science
theoretical
52
The Epistemological Support of Totalitarianism
theoretical
53
The Consequences of Positivism
theoretical
54
Notes to Preface, Preliminary Observations, and Chapters 1–8
footnotes
55
Index
bibliography