Theory And History,9780865975682

Theory And History

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ISBN13: 9780865975682
ISBN10: 086597568X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-08-01
Publisher(s): Liberty Fund
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Summary

Mises delves into the dynamic mechanism that drives the science of economics through a critical examination of its methodology.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note xi
Introduction 1(10)
1 Methodological Dualism
1(1)
2 Economics and Metaphysics
2(1)
3 Regularity and Prediction
3(1)
4 The Concept of the Laws of Nature
4(1)
5 The Limitations of Human Knowledge
5(1)
6 Regularity and Choosing
6(2)
7 Means and Ends
8(3)
PART 1 Value 11(36)
CHAPTER 1 Judgments of Value
13(5)
1 Judgments of Value and Propositions of Existence
13(1)
2 Valuation and Action
14(1)
3 The Subjectivity of Valuation
15(1)
4 The Logical and Syntactical Structure of Judgments of Value
16(2)
CHAPTER 2 Knowledge and Value
18(6)
1 The Bias Doctrine
18(1)
2 Common Weal versus Special Interests
19(3)
3 Economics and Value
22(1)
4 Bias and Intolerance
23(1)
CHAPTER 3 The Quest for Absolute Values
24(22)
1 The Issue
24(1)
2 Conflicts within Society
25(4)
3 A Remark on the Alleged Medieval Unanimity
29(1)
4 The Idea of Natural Law
30(3)
5 Revelation
33(1)
6 Atheistic Intuition
34(1)
7 The Idea of Justice
34(3)
8 The Utilitarian Doctrine Restated
37(4)
9 On Aesthetic Values
41(1)
10 The Historical Significance of the Quest for Absolute Values
42(4)
CHAPTER 4 The Negation of Valuation
46(1)
PART 2 Determinism and Materialism 47(74)
CHAPTER 5 Determinism and Its Critics
49(14)
1 Determinism
49(1)
2 The Negation of Ideological Factors
50(1)
3 The Free-Will Controversy
51(2)
4 Foreordination and Fatalism
53(2)
5 Determinism and Penology
55(1)
6 Determinism and Statistics
56(5)
7 The Autonomy of the Sciences of Human Action
61(2)
CHAPTER 6 Materialism
63(6)
1 Two Varieties of Materialism
63(2)
2 The Secretion Analogy
65(1)
3 The Political Implications of Materialism
66(3)
CHAPTER 7 Dialectical Materialism
69(37)
1 Dialectics and Marxism
69(3)
2 The Material Productive Forces
72(3)
3 The Class Struggle
75(7)
4 The Ideological Impregnation of Thought
82(5)
5 The Conflict of Ideologies
87(2)
6 Ideas and Interests
89(6)
7 The Class Interests of the Bourgeoisie
95(3)
8 The Critics of Marxism
98(5)
9 Marxian Materialism and Socialism
103(3)
CHAPTER 8 Philosophy of History
106(15)
1 The Theme of History
106(2)
2 The Theme of the Philosophy of History
108(2)
3 The Difference between the Point of View of History and That of Philosophy of History
110(3)
4 Philosophy of History and the Idea of God
113(4)
5 Activistic Determinism and Fatalistic Determinism
117(4)
PART 3 Epistemological Problems of History 121(92)
CHAPTER 9 The Concept of Historical Individuality
123(10)
1 The Ultimate Given of History
123(1)
2 The Role of the Individual in History
124(2)
3 The Chimera of the Group Mind
126(5)
4 Planning History
131(2)
CHAPTER 10 Historicism
133(27)
1 The Meaning of Historicism
133(4)
2 The Rejection of Economics
137(4)
3 The Quest for Laws of Historical Change
141(2)
4 Historicist Relativism
143(3)
5 Dissolving History
146(5)
6 Undoing History
151(5)
7 Undoing Economic History
156(4)
CHAPTER 11 The Challenge of Scientism
160(16)
1 Positivism and Behaviorism
160(6)
2 The Collectivist Dogma
166(4)
3 The Concept of the Social Sciences
170(2)
4 The Nature of Mass Phenomena
172(4)
CHAPTER 12 Psychology and Thymology
176(13)
1 Naturalistic Psychology and Thymology
176(4)
2 Thymology and Praxeology
180(1)
3 Thymology as a Historical Discipline
181(1)
4 History and Fiction
182(4)
5 Rationalization
186(1)
6 Introspection
187(2)
CHAPTER 13 Meaning and Use of the Study of History
189(12)
1 The Why of History
189(1)
2 The Historical Situation
190(1)
3 History of the Remote Past
191(2)
4 Falsifying History
193(1)
5 History and Humanism
194(2)
6 History and the Rise of Aggressive Nationalism
196(1)
7 History and Judgments of Value
197(4)
CHAPTER 14 The Epistemological Features of History
201(12)
1 Prediction in the Natural Sciences
201(1)
2 History and Prediction
202(3)
3 The Specific Understanding of History
205(2)
4 Thymological Experience
207(2)
5 Real Types and Ideal Types
209(4)
PART 4 The Course of History 213(38)
CHAPTER 15 Philosophical Interpretations of History
215(15)
1 Philosophies of History and Philosophical Interpretations of History
215(1)
2 Environmentalism
216(1)
3 The Egalitarians' Interpretation of History
217(3)
4 The Racial Interpretation of History
220(4)
5 The Secularism of Western Civilization
224(2)
6 The Rejection of Capitalism by Antisecularism
226(4)
CHAPTER 16 Present-Day Trends and the Future
230(21)
1 The Reversal of the Trend toward Freedom
230(2)
2 The Rise of the Ideology of Equality in Wealth and Income
232(7)
3 The Chimera of a Perfect State of Mankind
239(4)
4 The Alleged Unbroken Trend toward Progress
243(2)
5 The Suppression of "Economic" Freedom
245(5)
6 The Uncertainty of the Future
250(1)
Index 251

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