Choice:
Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action
By Robert P. Murphy
Foreword by Donald J. Boudreaux

« Modern civilization rests on the market economy, but economies can’t work properly when government policies interfere with peaceful individual choice, entrepreneurship, voluntary cooperation, market prices, private property, and free enterprise.

Such is the thesis of Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action, by Robert P. Murphy, a new book published by the Independent Institute.

Choice not only explains how a free-market economy raises living standards, protects human liberty, and fosters societal harmony and progress, but it also guides the reader through perhaps the greatest treatise in economics and social thought ever written, Human Action, by the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises.

Many economics books have become bestsellers in recent years, but none do what Choice does and focus on the most fundamental issues: the proper method for thinking about economics; the importance of the division of labor; the role of market prices in economic calculation and resource allocation; and the ways in which government interventions such as tariffs, wage and price controls, mandates, and inflationary monetary policies hamper economic coordination and social harmony.

This volume is a must-have for any student of economics or reader wanting to understand the processes that foster free societies and the engine of prosperity! «