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Happy Anniversary, Human Action!
September 14, 1949, was the official publication date of Ludwig von Mises’s immortal treatise, Human Action. While the book is long and apparently daunting, it is amazingly accessible for interested readers. It is well written and well organized, so don’t let the length keep you away from the most important book in economics.And don’t forget the special commemorative issue of The Freeman, featuring discussions of Human Action by Israel Kirzner, Bettina Greaves, Peter Boettke, and Peter Leeson. Also included is Henry Hazlitt’s original 1949 Newsweek column about the book when it was fresh off the press.
Comment by Jacob Steelman on 14 September 2009:
Mises was a brilliant economist and teacher of Austrian economics. When Human Action was first published government intervention was at its height thanks in large part to the central bank financing of WWII and the interventionist policies sweeping the world at that time. The Old Right of the Republican Party was fighting a rear-guard action. Since that time Austrian economics and libertarianism has experienced dramatic growth not only in the United States but around the world. Mises, Hayek, Rothbard,Sennholz , Percy Greaves and FEE helped to greatly advance this “new” explanation of the business cycle and laissez faire economics. Human Action was the compass which helped us negotiate the Keynesian, statist,interventionist mine field.
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