Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.

VON MISES, Ludwig.

Item Number: 4655

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949.

First edition, sixth printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Kenniston P. Merrill New York, May 25, 1961 Ludwig Mises.” In very good condition with some toning to the spine. Books inscribed by Von Mises are uncommon.

Human Action is the single most important work by Von Mises and one of the most influential economic works of the twentieth century. "It should become the leading text of everyone who believes in freedom, in individualism, and in the ability of a free-market economy not only to outdistance any government-planned system in the production of goods and services for the masses, but to promote and safeguard . . . those intellectual, cultural, and moral values upon which all civilization ultimately rests" (Henry Hazlitt).