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M , E , S
AN CONOMY AND TATE
A TREATISE ON ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
WITH
POWER AND MARKET
GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
M , E , S
AN CONOMY AND TATE
A TREATISE ON ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
WITH
P M
OWER AND ARKET
GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY
SECONDEDITION
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market:
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION OF MAN, ECONOMY,
AND STATE WITH POWER AND MARKET
by Joseph T. Salerno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . li
CHAPTER 1—FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN ACTION. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1. The Concept of Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. First Implications of the Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Further Implications: The Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Further Implications: Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Further Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
A. Ends and Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B. The Law of Marginal Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6. Factors of Production: The Law of Returns. . . . . . . . . . . 33
7. Factors of Production: Convertibility
and Valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8. Factors of Production: Labor versus Leisure . . . . . . . . . . 42
9. The Formation of Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
10. Action as an Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Appendix A: Praxeology and Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Appendix B: On Means and Ends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
CHAPTER 2—DIRECT EXCHANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
1. Types of Interpersonal Action: Violence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2. Types of Interpersonal Action: Voluntary Exchange
and the Contractual Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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