An abridgement of
Human Action, a treatise on economic
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An abridgement of
Human Action a Treatise on Economics
...................................................1Table.........................................................................................................................................2Preface......................................................................................................................................5The Austrian school of economics.......................................................................................5
Human Action
......................................................................................................................7This abridgement: why and how........................................................................................10The structure of this abridgment........................................................................................11The place of economics in the sciences..................................................................................13The scope of economics.....................................................................................................13The physical sciences and the human sciences..................................................................14Praxeology.........................................................................................................................16Human reason....................................................................................................................18Economics as a discipline.......................................................................................................20The procedure of economics..............................................................................................20The method of imaginary constructions............................................................................21The states of rest................................................................................................................22The imaginary construction of the evenly rotating economy............................................23The imaginary construction of the stationary economy.....................................................25Logical economics versus mathematical economics.........................................................25Judgments of value............................................................................................................28Economics and the citizen.................................................................................................28Economics as a profession.................................................................................................30Human action..........................................................................................................................32The definition of human action..........................................................................................32Methodological individualism...........................................................................................33Goals..................................................................................................................................33Ends and means.................................................................................................................34Value..................................................................................................................................35Utility.................................................................................................................................37Exchange and profit...........................................................................................................38Time...................................................................................................................................40The valuation of time periods............................................................................................41