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Ludwig von Mises's Human Action was published on this date in 1949. Thanks to our generous donors, the indispensable ideas in this book are more widely accessible than ever before. https://mises.org/power-market/human-action-was-published-day-1949
Human Action is available for free on our site as both a book and audiobook:
https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
@BobMurphyEcon's study guide is as well: https://mises.org/library/study-guide-human-action-treatise-economics
https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
@BobMurphyEcon's study guide is as well: https://mises.org/library/study-guide-human-action-treatise-economics
. @jeffdeist's Human Action Podcast brought in some of the leading Austrian scholars to breakdown the book part-by-part.
#HAPod is available as a download, and all major podcast outlets. https://mises.org/library/human-action-podcast
#HAPod is available as a download, and all major podcast outlets. https://mises.org/library/human-action-podcast
In these two articles, @jtsale explains the importance and continued relevance of Human Action.
Why You Should Read Human Action—Very Carefully
https://mises.org/wire/why-you-should-read-human-action-very-carefully
The Place of Human Action in the Development of Modern Economic Thought https://mises.org/library/place-human-action-development-modern-economic-thought-1
Why You Should Read Human Action—Very Carefully
https://mises.org/wire/why-you-should-read-human-action-very-carefully
The Place of Human Action in the Development of Modern Economic Thought https://mises.org/library/place-human-action-development-modern-economic-thought-1
Some additional reads:
A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary
https://mises.org/library/human-action-chapter-chapter-summary
America's Riots Are Just the Latest Version of Marxist "Syndicalism"
https://mises.org/wire/americas-riots-are-just-latest-version-marxist-syndicalism
COVID Lockdowns Crippled the Division of Labor, Setting the Stage for Civil Unrest https://mises.org/wire/covid-lockdowns-crippled-division-labor-setting-stage-civil-unrest
A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary
https://mises.org/library/human-action-chapter-chapter-summary
America's Riots Are Just the Latest Version of Marxist "Syndicalism"
https://mises.org/wire/americas-riots-are-just-latest-version-marxist-syndicalism
COVID Lockdowns Crippled the Division of Labor, Setting the Stage for Civil Unrest https://mises.org/wire/covid-lockdowns-crippled-division-labor-setting-stage-civil-unrest
In the words of Henry Hazlitt:
Human Action is, in short, at once the most uncompromising and the most rigorously reasoned statement of the case for capitalism that has yet appeared. (1/2)
Human Action is, in short, at once the most uncompromising and the most rigorously reasoned statement of the case for capitalism that has yet appeared. (1/2)
...If any single book can turn the ideological tide that has been running in recent years so heavily toward statism, socialism, and totalitarianism, Human Action is that book. (2/2) https://mises.org/wire/hazlitt-human-action-misess-masterpiece
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