Human Action is available through Amazon, after having been lost in the shuffle of editions out there. This is the only version that is the first edition published in 1949. It is, however, more expensive than buying directly from Mises.org.
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Human Action, Scholars Edition at Amazon
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BTW, it’s great that you make all these books available for download in PDF format – I’ve bought several printed versions only because I’ve had the PDFs – but what are the chances of also having downloads in epub format?
I’m currently reading “Mises: Last Knight of Liberalism”. Right after that I intend to go back to “Human Action”. I haven’t finished it yet and figured I would enjoy it more with more context about the man and the world at the time it was written.
Two questions:
1.) When is Robert P. Murphy’s Study Guide to “Human Action: Scholar’s Editon” going to be published, much like his Study Guide to “Man, Economy, and State: Scholar’s Edition” was?
2.) What should one start off with, “Human Action” or “Man, Economy, and State?”
The problem is PDF format is not intended to be read on computer(at least not the way most of the pdf books are formatted), its more intended to print them out.
So its really tough to read mises ebooks on computer, maybe you should think of a different format which makes it easier to be read on a screen.
In response to your second question, Mrhuh, “Man, Economy, and State?” is a sort of primer for “Human Action”. Mises assumes a certain amount of knowledge, Rothbard covers this and then some.
The Human Action Study Guide is being posted as it is being written but we are only half way there. Big book.
“Man, Economy, and State?” is a sort of primer for “Human Action”.
Really? I read them the other way around, and found that order proper.
It is Human Action which provides the episemological and philosophical base for the methods used by Rothbard.
They’re styles contrast too much to be considered a series, anyhow. Mises is so conscise that I read paragraphs several times before understanding them, while Rothbard is so verbose that I wish he would move past the point he’s made several times already.
I also had the benefit of “Mises Made Easier” which ought to be sold with the book.
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