24 Harmony and Conflict of Interests
1 The Ultimate Source of Profit and Loss on the Market
2 The Limitation of Offspring
3 The Harmony of the “Rightly Understood” Interests
4 Private Property
5 The Conflicts of Our Age
VOLUME 3
PART 5 Social Cooperation Without a Market
CHAPTER 25 The Imaginary Construction of a Socialist Society
1 The Historical Origin of the Socialist Idea
2 The Socialist Doctrine
3 The Praxeological Character of Socialism
CHAPTER 26 The Impossibility of Economic Calculation Under Socialism
1 The Problem
2 Past Failures to Conceive the Problem
3 Recent Suggestions for Socialist Economic Calculation
4 Trial and Error
5 The Quasi-market
6 The Differential Equations of Mathematical Economics
PART 6 The Hampered Market Economy
CHAPTER 27 The Government and the Market
1 The Idea of a Third System
2 The Intervention
3 The Delimitation of Governmental Functions
4 Righteousness as the Ultimate Standard of the Individual’s Actions
5 The Meaning of Laissez Faire
6 Direct Government Interference with Consumption
7 Corruption
CHAPTER 28 Interference by Taxation
1 The Neutral Tax
2 The Total Tax
3 Fiscal and Nonfiscal Objectives of Taxation
4 The Three Classes of Tax Interventionism
CHAPTER 29 Restriction of Production
1 The Nature of Restriction
2 The Price of Restriction
3 Restriction as a Privilege
4 Restriction as an Economic System
CHAPTER 30 Interference with the Structure of Prices
1 The Government and the Autonomy of the Market
2 The Market’s Reaction to Government Interference
Observations on the Causes of the Decline of Ancient Civilization
3 Minimum Wage Rates
The Catallactic Aspects of Labor Unionism
CHAPTER 31 Currency and Credit Manipulation
1 The Government and the Currency
2 The Interventionist Aspect of Legal Tender Legislation
3 The Evolution of Modern Methods of Currency Manipulation
4 The Objectives of Currency Devaluation
5 Credit Expansion
The Chimera of Contracyclical Policies
6 Foreign Exchange Control and Bilateral Exchange Agreements
CHAPTER 32 Confiscation and Redistribution
1 The Philosophy of Confiscation
2 Land Reform
3 Confiscatory Taxation
Confiscatory Taxation and Risk-Taking
CHAPTER 33 Syndicalism and Corporativism
1 The Syndicalist Idea
2 The Fallacies of Syndicalism
3 Syndicalist Elements in Popular Policies
4 Guild Socialism and Corporativism
CHAPTER 34 The Economics of War
1 Total War
2 War and the Market Economy
3 War and Autarky
4 The Futility of War
CHAPTER 35 The Welfare Principle Versus the Market Principle
1 The Case Against the Market Economy
2 Poverty
3 Inequality
4 Insecurity
5 Social Justice
CHAPTER 36 The Crisis of Interventionism
1 The Harvest of Interventionism
2 The Exhaustion of the Reserve Fund
3 The End of Interventionism
PART 7 The Place of Economics in Society
CHAPTER 37 The Nondescript Character of Economics
1 The Singularity of Economics
2 Economics and Public Opinion
3 The Illusion of the Old Liberals
CHAPTER 38 The Place of Economics in Learning
1 The Study of Economics
2 Economics as a Profession
3 Forecasting as a Profession
4 Economics and the Universities
5 General Education and Economics
6 Economics and the Citizen
7 Economics and Freedom
CHAPTER 39 Economics and the Essential Problems of Human Existence
1 Science and Life
2 Economics and Judgments of Value
3 Economic Cognition and Human Action
VOLUME 4
APPENDIX
Glossary
Index
A Treatise on Economics
This edition of Mises’s Human Action is reproduced from the Foundation for Economic Education’s 4th edition which was a reprint of the 3rd 1966 Henry Regnery edition.