Principles of economics

August 2016 - The edition I listened to is not the one I listed in Goodreads. The edition I "read" (listened to actually) is by Laissez Faire Books (www.lfb.org). This book is an absolute classic, first published in 1871. It had been on my "To Read" list for over 40 years, but somehow I never got to......more

Outstanding accomplishment in Economic Theory. Finally I experienced the same feeling as Wieser, Bohm-Bawerk and Mises, who openly admitted this was the book that made them economists. If you approach this with the right state of mind (and not too early in your studies, I venture to add), Menger's m......more

ENGLISH “Principles of Political Economy” is the book that placed Carl Menger among the heads of the so-called “Marginalist Revolution”, along with William Stanley Jevons and Leon Walras — Jevons recognizes that German Hermann Gossen had also addressed the key idea of ​​marginal utility even before h......more

Principles of Economics clarifies the nature of economic value by the real life actions of individual human beings, it also launched the Marginalist Revolution when it corrected theoretical errors in the theory of value of the old economic classical school, for this philosophical thought, Carl Menge......more

A truly revolutionary book. This is Economic's Copernicus setting the foundations of Economics anew. Such a copernican turn that it sets the foundations for value, capital and institutional evolution theory for all other continental (aka "Austrian) economists to follow. The most important economic b......more