I started mid-end of December. Some passages are quite hard, especially the first 100+ pages took me a while, but most parts are just astonishing how neutral and clearly he describes the topics. And most topics sparked my thirst for knowledge again and again. In the end you get rewarded with a clarity which none other book accomplished so far. And you realize that it really takes so many pages to get to this clarity. There is no shortcut, but it’s very rewarding!
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There is a podcast show that is audio version of all Chapters. I use this as a companion to the book switching between the two.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/human-action-a-treatise-on-economics/id380693720
I’ll be diving into this in the future. Got the same copy in the queue.
Got through a dozen pages and realized I probably need audio companion to read gooder
Check this out:
Don’t give up, from my point of view the first 100+ pages are the hardest
From my point of view a must-read for every Bitcoiner and everyone who is interested to lift the living standards for everyone and not just steal from another group. Combined with „The Ethics of Money Production“ it gives you an incredible clarity on how genius Bitcoin is from the economic standpoint. Even so if you think you already got it, you will get enlightened 100%! However, we all know that the #Bitcoin learning rabbit whole has no end.
I forget which podcast I listened to and I also picked up this book which is kind of a companion guide to Human Action.
I don’t consider it a short cut but more of a commentary.
Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise,... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01228F4OE?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Don’t know this one, but to read the full Human Action you definitely need quite some thirst for knowledge on economics. So I guess this book is helpful to make it accessible to a wider range of people.
Yeah for sure.
I’ve read and reread a good deal of Human Action and definitely got some aha moments around the broader concept of acting man before bringing it into a narrower context.
What I do like about Choice is that it meta tags some of the areas Mises writes about and brings his arguments against the German school, priori knowledge, and others into perspective on why he chose to push back on these in the book (some are more self explanatory today than others).
Audiobook version of Human Action is available at https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10078041
Free!