title: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
author:  Ludwig von Mises 
description: <strong><em>Human Action: A Treatise on Economics</em></strong> is a good representation of the Austrian School of Economics that had a great influence in the development of economic liberalism after the Cold War. The great paradox of this movement is similar to that found in other representations of this time like Popper or Hayek himself, to know/find out: Up to what point do these type of economic theories they elaborate upon try to give some answer to the collective economies of Communism, to those put into place post Cold War or are they simply suggested in a social and political context of successive economic crises of liberal experiments at the beginning of the century, especially after the convulsions of the 1920s. . . .In effect <strong><em>Human Action</em></strong> may have discovered some anthropological universals that would permit justification for the behavior of 'homo oeconomicus' situated at either a local or global level. It would change the context upon which their theories are projected these days, not the problems they try to resolve.<br /><br />Carlos Ortiz de Landazuri<br />2007<br />
zlib_text: HUMAN ACTION 
  A Treatise on Economics 
  BY 
  LUDWIG VON MISES 
  LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE 
  AUBURN, ALABAMA 
  
  The Ludwig von Mises Institute gratefully dedicates this 
  restored Human Action to all its Members who aided in this 
  historic project, and in particular to the following Patrons: 
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  The Ludwig von Mises Institute thanks Bettina Bien Greaves for permission to reissue 
  the first edition of Human Action. 
  Copyright O 1998 by Betti