Map of Ideas
Thinkers, books, essays and the concepts of the Glossary in one interactive graph, and how they connect.
Praxeologos
How the map works
- The map opens with the 56 core concepts. To see all 251 nodes, untick “Core concepts only”, or open “Everything as a list” below the map.
- Type a concept, a thinker or a book into the search box. It also finds items that are not shown on the map.
- Select a node to see its definition and connections. Concepts also show passages from the English originals, with a link to the text: the full text on Praxeologos where there is one, otherwise the original at mises.org.
- The Thinkers, Books, Essays/articles and Concepts boxes show or hide each kind of node. The + / − buttons zoom in and out, and ⤢ shows the whole map.
- Drag to move the map. To zoom with the mouse wheel, click inside the map first or hold down Ctrl.
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Everything as a list (thinkers, books, concepts, essays)
Thinkers (6)
Books (13)
- Anatomy of the State
- Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
- Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
- Economic Science and the Austrian Method
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
- Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
- I, Pencil
- Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market
- On the Origin of Money
- Planned Chaos
- The Law
- The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
- What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Glossary concepts (223)
- (Private) protection / defense agencies
- A posteriori
- A priori (apriorism)
- Acting man
- Action axiom
- Aggression / non-aggression axiom
- Anarchy
- Apodictic
- Argumentation ethics
- Austrian School
- Bank deposits
- Banknotes
- Bills of exchange
- Bimetallism / parallel standard
- Boom
- Bureaucracy
- Business cycle
- Bust / crisis / recession / depression
- Cantillon effect
- Capital
- Capital accumulation
- Capital consumption
- Capital gains
- Capital goods
- Capital value / capitalization
- Capitalism
- Cartel
- Cash holding / cash balance
- Catallactics
- Causality
- Central bank
- Central planning
- Ceteris paribus (other things being equal)
- Classical economics
- Coercion
- Commodity money
- Competition
- Conscription
- Conservatism
- Consumer goods
- Consumer sovereignty
- Consumption function / multiplier
- Counterfeiting
- Credit expansion
- Cronyism
- Debasement / devaluation
- Deflation
- Demand / supply schedule vs curve
- Demand deposit
- Demand for money
- Democracy
- Depreciation (of capital)
- Determinism
- Discounting
- Division of labor
- Economic calculation
- Economic growth
- Economic law
- Economic means vs political means
- Egalitarianism
- Empiricism
- Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship
- Epistemology
- Equilibrium
- Evenly rotating economy (ERE)
- Ex ante
- Ex post
- Exchange
- Exchange rate
- Exchange ratio
- Exchange value / use value
- Exploitation (class exploitation)
- Falsification
- Federal Reserve
- Fiat money
- Fiduciary media
- Forced integration / free immigration
- Fractional reserve banking
- Free banking
- Free trade
- Free will
- Gold standard
- Good (economic good)
- Goods of higher order
- Government
- Government enterprise / government ownership
- Grant of monopoly privilege / compulsory monopoly
- Gresham's law
- Hampered market economy
- Historical School
- Historicism
- Hoarding
- Human action
- Imputation
- Indirect exchange
- Inflation
- Institutionalism
- Interest (originary interest)
- Interventionism
- Intuition
- Investment
- Invisible hand
- Keynesianism
- Knowledge problem
- Labor union
- Laissez-faire
- Land
- Law of association
- Law of returns
- Legal tender
- Leisure
- Libertarianism
- Liberty / freedom
- Loss
- Macroeconomics / aggregates
- Malinvestment
- Marginal producer
- Marginal productivity
- Marginal utility
- Market (free market)
- Market economy
- Materialism
- Mathematical economics
- Medium of exchange
- Mercantilism
- Methodological individualism
- Minimum wage
- Mixed economy
- Monetary calculation
- Monetary policy
- Monetary unit / unit of account
- Money
- Money certificates
- Money relation
- Money substitutes
- Money supply
- Monopoly
- Nationalization
- Natural law
- Natural order
- Natural rights
- Neutral money
- Neutral tax / tax neutrality
- Opportunity cost
- Original factors (of production)
- Patents
- Positivism
- Praxeology
- Preference
- Premise
- Present goods / future goods
- Pressure groups / special interests
- Price
- Price controls (maximum/minimum prices)
- Price level / index numbers
- Private ownership of the means of production
- Private property
- Producers' goods / factors of production
- Production goods / producers’ goods
- Profit
- Promoter (entrepreneur)
- Property rights
- Protectionism
- Public goods / collective goods
- Purchasing power of money
- Purchasing-power parity
- Pure market economy
- Purposeful behavior
- Quantity theory of money
- Rationalism
- Redistribution (of income or wealth)
- Regression theorem
- Rent
- Rule of law
- Ruling class
- Saving
- Scarcity
- Secession
- Self-ownership
- Shortage / surplus
- Social contract
- Social cooperation
- Social democracy
- Socialism
- Socialist calculation problem
- Socialist commonwealth
- Socialization
- Sound money / hard money
- Specie (specie payments)
- Specific / nonspecific factors
- Speculation
- Spontaneous order
- State
- Statism / statist
- Stock market
- Structure of production
- Subjective value
- Supply and demand
- Tautology
- Taxation
- Taxpayers vs tax-consumers
- Teleology
- Territorial monopoly of jurisdiction (ultimate decision-making)
- Time market / loan market
- Time preference
- Uncertainty
- Understanding (Verstehen)
- Uneasiness
- Unemployment
- Unhampered market (economy)
- Utilitarianism
- Utility
- Valuation / appraisement
- Value
- Value judgment
- Value-freedom
- Violent intervention
- Voluntary (exchange, action)
- Wages
- Warehouse receipt
- Welfare economics
- Welfare state
Essays / articles (9)
- A Praxeological Argument against the Greek Tax Authority’s “Headquarters”
- Abolishing Anonymity on the Internet in the Light of Ludwig von Mises
- Economic Teaching at the Universities
- Monetary Policy and the Price of Privilege
- On the Proper Study of Man: Reflections on Method
- The Ban on Children’s Use of Social Media “for the Good of Our Children” in the Light of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard
- The Consequences of Central Banks’ “Money Printing”
- The Economics of Violent Intervention in the Market
- The Keynesian Illusion of Prosperity through Spending and the Alternative of the Austrian School of Economics
Where the links and passages come from
No link is invented. The graph is the graph of the Greek map (thinker → text, concept → book, “See also”, concepts that often occur in the same paragraphs, concept → example), without Democracy — The God That Failed, which the English site leaves out. Labels are the English glossary terms. Descriptions are the English glossary explanations, the first sentence of the English thinker page, or the book’s subtitle.
Passages: verbatim sentences from the English originals, aligned with the passages of the Greek map; sentences that contain the term come first. The link opens the book or chapter at mises.org (or fee.org / qjae.mises.org) in a new tab. It reaches the chapter, not the single paragraph.