WordNet
n. something that people do or cause to happen [syn: act, human activity]
Wikipedia
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is a work by the Austrian economist and philosopher Ludwig von Mises. Widely considered Mises' magnum opus, it presents the case for laissez-faire capitalism based on praxeology, or rational investigation of human decision-making. It rejects positivism within economics. It defends an a priori epistemology and underpins praxeology with a foundation of methodological individualism and speculative laws of apodictic certainty. Mises argues that the free-market economy not only outdistances any government-planned system, but ultimately serves as the foundation of civilization itself.
Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens is the 1940 German-language predecessor to Human Action.
Human Action is a political action committee (a super-PAC specifically) set up to raise money for candidates that support an Austrian School economic philosophy. It filed papers with the Federal Election Commission in December 2012, and supports the campaigns of Senator Rand Paul and the judge and former Fox News Channel host Andrew Napolitano.
Anthony Astolfi, the organisation's co-founder, has said they intend to support a campaign for Senator Paul to run for president. Astolfi has previously worked on the presidential campaign for Ron Paul in 2008, as well as the Senate campaign of Todd Akin and House campaign of Markwayne Mullin in 2012.
The name is a reference to the book Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises.
Usage examples of "human action".
In fact, knife and needle are products of a human action which is guided by these two concepts respectively.
It is always and everywhere one of the main causes of human action.
According to the hermeneuticists, who describe the phenomenon from the inside [Left-Hand], nondiscursive practices 'govern' human action by setting up a horizon of intelligibility in which only certain discursive practices and their objects and subjects make sense.
The extras, the chorus, the supporting players, are all theatrical robots, human in appearance and specially built for the purpose of re-creating human action on the stage.
It was a typically egotistical human action, with little survival value.
If so, happiness is the sole end of human action, and the promotion of it the test by which to judge of all human conduct.
If in a thousand years even one man in a million could act freely, that is, as he chose, it is evident that one single free act of that man's in violation of the laws governing human action would destroy the possibility of the existence of any laws for the whole of humanity.