Theory and History. An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution.

“A SWEEPING EPISTEMOLOGICAL VINDICATION OF THE CASE FOR LIBERTY AND CAPITALISM”

First edition. Small 8vo. ix, [1], 384 pp. Original navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; jacket price clipped and unevenly toned, a few faint marks to spine panel, notwithstanding an excellent example of the scarce dust jacket). New Haven, Yale University Press.

A major work by the libertarian philosopher and economist Ludwig von Mises, 'a sweeping epistemological vindication of the case for liberty and capitalism. Mises argued that the only scientific interpretation of social reality was based on economics and history, and that the conclusions of both these disciplines led to the more speculative of utilitarian philosophy as he understood it. He showed the major alternative approaches - Marxism, positivism, and historicism - despite their pretension to science, were untenable on epistemological grounds' (Hulsmann, Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, pp. 949-50). 

Greaves and McGee, B-20.

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