Human Action: The Antidote to Progressivism | Joseph T. Salerno

“Human Action is the foundational work of modern Austrian economics, and that is reason enough for reading it. But there is an equally compelling reason for carefully studying Mises’s great treatise. For it is the antidote to the real and immediate threat to human liberty and society, represented by the prevailing social philosophy of progressivism.”
Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
“Human Action is the foundational work of modern Austrian economics, and that is reason enough for reading it. But there is an equally compelling reason for carefully studying Mises’s great treatise. For it is the antidote to the real and immediate threat to human liberty and society, represented by the prevailing social philosophy of progressivism.”
Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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Well done, Joe!

[@cryptoemcee]

Thanks, Joseph.

[@jackreacher.]

Plutarch on ''Parallel Lives'': 'Demosthenes could not have said it better'; With respect to interventionist economic policies of progressive politicians: ''The end of economic theory is the beginning of unregulated production''.

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And yet governments, corporations & central banks are just ignoring what Mises theorized about a calculation problem, and they are making progress in solving it any because they have economic incentives to do so.

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How are they are "solving" it? And how do you measure that "progress"?