I am considering ordering a copy of Human Action, along with Robert Murphy’s study guide, to study over the Winter Break. Is anyone interested in starting a thread in which we can post questions and comments about each of the chapters? If there is interest I will go ahead and order a copy. What do you guys think?
I’ll take that as a no… Go ahead and delete this thread.
I will spend some time on this group if it gets going. Both the book (http://mises.org/Books/humanaction.pdf) and the guide (http://mises.org/books/humanactionstudy.pdf) are free online. The book is about 900 pages, so maybe you should make some timeline to get through it all. I can handle a chapter every day or two, but will be lacking internet for about a week around XMAS.
Um, you barely gave it a day’s time…
I’m down for it. I took a crack at Human Action about 4 months ago and got 250 or so pages into it before aborting the attempt. The most difficult thing was that I had to go to the dictionary on almost every page, but now with my newly expanded idiolect and the study guide it should be a bit easier.
What kind of pace are are you thinking of? Don’t count me in 100% just yet, but I definitely have some interest.
Hey, what do you think about an entire Human Action site? So the idea would be a separate domain that offers text, study guide, audio chapter by chapter but a forum entirely dedicated to the book, section by section.
Does that sound like a good idea? I’m thinking this might be an interesting 2009 project if we can get the funding.
Sounds like a great idea!
I think that a Human Action study site sounds like a fantastic idea. I just received the Scholar’s Edition for Christmas and am really excited about gaining a deeper understanding of Austrian economics. I would appreciate any resource that helped me to draw more from Mises’ magnum opus.
I received human action as a gift as well. Thanks Joe! The idea of reading it in a few weeks or a month seems rather ambitious though. If the site comes together great , but if not perhaps we can still set up something informal with the tools we have ie the forum and live chat. Weekly reading assignments and then we can use the forum and live chat to discuss
I know it’s been little more than a week since this was posted, but has there been any progress towards this end? Also if other sites members would post there interest in this project it may help Unless it’s more than the three people who have posted I doubt it will happen.
That sounds great, actually.
Perhaps integrate it into this forum?
I like this idea. I will need to buy a copy of the book, the PDF just doesnt cut it for anything longer than 100pgs.
Yes, perhaps there is a way to integrate it into community server somehow. I guess that would be best. A group?
Here’s the thing, which I don’t think has been announced. We have commissioned Riggenbach to do an audio of the book. We will have html, pdf, audio, and study guide. amazing huh? We are just trying to think of the best way to present all this stuff.
A group or a closed subforum, either would be good.
This would be an interesting study group. I’d like to participate.
I’d like to see discussion groups exist in the form of thread ownership. Allow users to start their own discussion groups and moderate them as they see fit. Instead of moderating and defining groups from the top down, incorporate a sense of ownership and allow it to progress in a free market way as opposed to a command economy way.
“Hey, there’s a Tucker discussion group for Human Action. Nah, those guys are too smart and he’s too anal. Let me try this group over here.”
“What about pairunoyd’s Human Action group? Nope, too low-brow and off subject.”
Also, there’s no telling what sorts of innovations could arise from ownership. Rules, tools and ideas could come to “market”, innovations that would never emerge in a top-down system.
I’ve been pushing this idea for a while and I truly believe it will be the wave of the future…
I’m only up to page 18 and my head hurts. I’d never even heard of praxaeology or epistemology or callartics. Luckily, the edition I have comes with a glossary.
thought i would bump this anyone else interested in reading human action
Seems like a good idea, but Human Action is a long and difficult book I heard. Should we start off with something easier? There’s a boom of minarchists/ anarcho capitalists coming to this side.