Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher: Von Mises Institute
Keywords: loss, profit
Published: 2008
eBookDB-ID: B001N3FB02

In 1951, Mises gave an outstanding paper that made the summary case for the price system under capitalistic economic systems. In "Profit and Loss," he explains how cost accounting is the critical institution that ferrets out social waste, ensures that resources are directed to their most highly valued ends, and how entrepreneurs respond to price signals. His presentation is systematic, relentless, logical, and ultimately devastating to the opponents of profit and loss. He explains what it is that entrepreneurs confront in a market economy and how no bureaucratic institution can replicate the

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Keywords: socialism, inflation, science, pseudo, market, enemies, free
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 1572462086
ISBN-13: 9781572462083

This is a "new" book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer but as a speaker of enormous erudition and power. There are nine lectures in this book: Economics and its Opponents; Pseudo-Science and Historical Understanding; Acting Man and Economics; Marxism, Socialism, and Pseudo-Science; Capitalism and Human Progress; Money and Inflation; The Gold Standard: Its Importance and Restoration; Money, Credit, and

Author: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Institute
Keywords: method, austrian, science, economic
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 2007-02-26
ISBN-10: 094546620X
ISBN-13: 9780945466208

A definitive defense of the praxeological view: economics as a purely deductive science. Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the "synthetic apriori" proposition, thereby expanding an aim of Mises’s in the methodology section of Human Action. Hoppe is the Austrian School’s most prominent methodologist, and here he is in top form. From the Publisher A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approa

Author: Jr Llewellyn H Rockwell
Publisher: Von Mises Institute
Keywords: state, right
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 1933550201
ISBN-13: 9781933550206

Lew Rockwell’s new manifesto is a clarion callcreative and thought-provoking on every pagefor a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage that will make you think hard, laugh out loud, or see things a completely new way. This is certainly one of them. Rockwell is the founder and president of the Mises Institute, and the editor of his own site LewRockwell. He has played an important role in the shaping of libertarian theory for a quarter of a century. This book shows how and why. Subtle

Author: Joerg Guido Huelsmann
Publisher: Von Mises Institute
Keywords: production, money, ethics
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008
eBookDB-ID: B001N3H70O

280 pages. This pioneering work, in hardback, by Joerg Guido Huelsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and the author of Mises: The Last knight of Liberalism, is the first full study of a critically important issue today: the ethics of money production. He is speaking not in the colloquial sense of the phrase "making money," but rather the actual production of money as a commodity in the whole economic life. The choice of the money we use in exchange is not something that needs to be established and fixed by government. In fact, his thesis is that a government m

Author: Walter Block
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: undefendable, defending
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN-10: 1933550171
ISBN-13: 9781933550176

Professor Block’s book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However, beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces in everyday events and affairs. Murray Rothbard explains why: "Defending the Undefendable performs the service of highlighting, the fullest

Author: LUDWIG VON MISES
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: von, mises, ludwig, works, lib, bureaucracy
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN-10: 0865976635
ISBN-13: 9780865976634

Written long before Public Choice economists began to take up the subject, Mises describes bureaucracies as both self-interested and economically irrational (thereby improving on the modern Public Choice critique). There is no reinventing government: if we are to have government do things for us, bureaucracies, which cannot behave efficiently, will have to do the work. This small book has grown in stature as Western economies have become more and more bureaucratized.From the publisher Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements