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Jim Vann
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New second edition with new intro by Hans Hoppe
Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his first book in English - and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socialism and capitalism. All systems are combinations of those two types. The capitalist model he defines as pure protection of private property, free association, and exchange - no exceptions. All deviations from that ideal are species of socialism, with public ownership and interference with trade. Within the structure of socialism, he distinguishes the left and right version. "Conservative" socialism favors high regulation, behavioral controls, protectionism, and nationalism. The "liberal" version tends more toward outright public ownership and redistribution. The consequences of socialism vary based on their degree and kind, but they have similarities: high costs, resource waste, low growth.
This treatise has long been out of print, but is now available again for use in comparative-systems classes, and for an orientation to the theory of economic systems. The theoretical apparatus is Rothbardian to the core, and its main contribution is to provide an organizing principle for understanding the structure of real-world economies as measured against pure types. A tour de force. This edition preserves the formatting from the original publisher, for reasons of citation. Though it was published by a major academic publishing house, the visuals are not what they might have been. Nonetheless, the book is well cited, and this edition makes it possible to navigate those citations.
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In The Private Production of Defense, Hoppe takes on one the most difficult subjects in economic and political theory: the provision of security. Addressing those who would claim that only the state can and should supply society with the service of protection, Hoppe argues that in fact it is better provided by free markets than government. In the process he tackles a hundred counterarguments. Here we have an important and exhilarating update and refinement of an argument rarely made even in the libertarian tradition.
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Ground breaking thinking
- By peter on 07-15-22
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Human Action
- A Treatise on Economics
- By: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 47 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Human Action is the most important book on political economy you will ever own. It was (and remains) the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the economics of liberty ever written. This is the Scholar's Edition: accept no substitute. You will treasure this volume. The Scholar's Edition is the original, unaltered treatise (originally published in 1949) that shaped a generation of Austrians and made possible the intellectual movement that is leading the global charge for free markets.
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Better be prepared to bookmark
- By Zephyr on 07-15-14
By: Ludwig von Mises
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- Elizabeth C.
- 11-22-19
Excellent defense of capitalism
Although this is a very academic, and sometimes dry, expose, it makes an indisputable case for the merits of capitalism. A must listen to for every Free Thinker.
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- Taylor Britton
- 05-16-20
covenant vs syndicate
if i had the choice to live in 'Ancapistan' as a Hoppean Covenant Community or a Chomskian Anarcho Syndicalist Community, i know which one i would choose.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-08-23
Very Good Read
I enjoyed this title from Hoppe. I also thought that the narrator was good as well.
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- PublicName
- 10-07-20
Excellent Book!
A joy to read. No fluff. Sound reasoning. Great work in the Austrian tradition. I will read again.
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- David
- 11-15-23
Excellent
I really appreciated chapters 9 and 10, which were about natural monopolies not being a problem (only government monopolies), and on how the theory of public goods is nonsensical.
I loved this book. His "Democracy: The God That Failed" is very good too.
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