Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School

Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School

Randall Holcombe at the Human Action Conference, 2024

05/18/2024 Randall G. Holcombe

“When Human Action first appeared, its distinctive Austrian school approach was already considered a closed chapter in the history of economic thought. So, Human Action and Mises’ New York University seminar had a huge impact. It’s the reason that we’re here today. It’s the reason that we have a modern Austrian school.”

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.