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EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF ECONOMICS THIRD EDITION Ludwig von Mises Translated by George Reisman Introduction to the Third Edition by J?rg Guido Hülsmann Grundprobleme der National?konomie: Untersuchungen über Verfahren, Aufgaben und Inhalt der Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftslehre 1933 Epistemological Problems of Economics Translated from the German by George Reisman Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada by D. Van Nostrand Co., 1960 Reprinted 1978 by New York University Press, with Foreword by Ludwig M. Lachmann Copyright ? 1976 Institute for Humane Studies Third edition 2003 by Ludwig von Mises Institute Copyright ? Bettina Bien Greaves ISBN: 0-945466-36-6 CONTENTS Introduction to the Third Edition . . . .ix Foreword to the 1978 Edition .lvii Preface to the English-Language Edition . . .lxv Preface to the German Edition lxxi 1 THE TASK AND SCOPE OF THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN ACTION . 1 I. The Nature and Development of the Social Sciences .1 1. Origin in the historical and normative sciences .1 2. Economics . . . .3 3. The program of sociology and the quest for historical laws . . . .4 4. The standpoint of historicism 5 5. The standpoint of empiricism 8 6. The logical character of the universally valid science of human action . . . .13 7. Sociology and economics: Some comments on the history of economic thought . . . .18 II. The Scope and Meaning of the System of A Priori Theorems .24 1. The basic concept of action and its categori