''Man, Economy, and State: A treatise on economic principles'' is a 1962 book of
Austrian School
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economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
by
Murray Rothbard (orig. abridged ed.). It was originally intended as a textbook form of
Human Action by
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; ; September 29, 1881 – October 10, 1973) was an Austrian-American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions of classical l ...
, but became its own treatise after he realized original work was needed to flesh out Mises' ideas.
According to
Salerno
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, the book Power and Market: Government and the Economy "was originally written as the third volume of ''Man, Economy, and State'', but was published separately eight years later".
It was reunited with the 4th edition of ''Man, Economy, and State'' in 2004 in the volume sub-titled "The Scholar's Edition" from the
Ludwig von Mises Institute
The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, that is a center for Austrian economics, right-wing libertarian thought and the paleolibertarian and anarcho ...
.
The author analyzes the negative effects of the various kinds of
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
intervention, and argues that the
State
State most commonly refers to:
* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
is neither necessary nor useful.
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