Editing Human Action (section)

==Publishing history==
The German-language predecessor to ''Human Action'', titled ''Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens'', first appeared in 1940. ''Human Action'' was not a direct translation of the earlier work, but used its general framework and expanded on it.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_it9c6z4bw_8C |first=Jörg Guido |last=Hülsmann |author-link=Jörg Guido Hülsmann |publisher=Ludwig von Mises Institute |location=Auburn, Alabama |year=2007 |isbn=978-1933550183 |oclc=173847313 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_it9c6z4bw_8C/page/n775 759]–760}}</ref>

[[Yale University Press]] published the first edition of ''Human Action'' in 1949. When production delays pushed back the planned released date of a revised and expanded second edition, [[Lyle Munson]], publisher of Bookmailer, Inc., suggested that Mises could take the book to another publisher, and offered to publish it himself. Mises used this offer as leverage to get Yale University Press to accelerate its release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mises.org/library/archives|first=Jeffrey M.|last=Herbener|website=[[Mises Institute]]|title=Human Action: What the Archives Tell Us|date=January 8, 1999|access-date=June 30, 2020}}</ref> The resulting 1963 edition was full of typographical errors, and another one had to be printed quickly afterwards by another editor.<ref>{{cite book|first=Margit von|last=Mises|title=My Years with Ludwig von Mises|publisher=Arlington House|location=New Rochelle, NY|date=1976|isbn=0870003682|oclc=2424897|pages=[https://archive.org/details/myyearswithludwi00vonm/page/110 110–114]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/myyearswithludwi00vonm/page/110}}</ref> [[Regnery Publishing|Henry Regnery]] published the revised third edition in 1966.

A posthumous fourth edition was published in 1996, with revisions by [[Bettina B. Greaves]]. It is available in hardback single ([[Liberty Fund]], {{ISBN|0865976309}}) and four-volume paperback editions (Liberty Fund, {{ISBN|0865976317}}), as well as single-volume paperback (Fox & Wilkes, {{ISBN|0930073185}}). In 1998, the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]] brought back the first edition as the "Scholar's Edition" ({{ISBN|0945466242}}). In 2010, the Institute reissued the first edition as a portable "Pocket Edition" ({{ISBN|978-1610161459}}).

===Translations===
* In Italian (1959) as ''L'azione umana : trattato di economia'', Torino: UTET {{oclc|799056504}}
* In Chinese (1976) as 人的行為 : 經濟學硏論 / ''Ren de xing wei : jing ji xue yan lun'' by 台湾銀行經濟硏究室, Taiwan yin hang jin ji yan jiu shi, (Bank of Taiwan) {{oclc|33160039}}
* In French (1985) as ''L’action humaine: Traité d’économie''.  Libre échange. Paris : PUF, 1985. {{ISBN|2130385982}}
* In Portuguese (1990) as ''Ação humana: Um tratado de economia''. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Liberal. {{ISBN|978-8562816055}}
* In Spanish (1995) as ''La acción humana: tratado de economía''. Madrid: Unión Editorial D.L., {{ISBN|9788472092921}}; {{oclc|433628807}}
* In Czech (2006) as ''Lidské jednání: Pojednání o ekonomii''. Prague: [[Liberální Institut]]. {{ISBN|8086389456}}
* In Polish (2007) as ''Ludzkie działanie: traktat o ekonomii'' {{ISBN|978-8392616009}}; {{oclc|749787775}}
* In Turkish (2008) as ''İnsan eylemi: iktisat üzerine bir inceleme'', Ankara: Liberte Yayınları. {{ISBN|9789756201411}}; {{oclc|434438770}}
* In Japanese (2008) as ヒューマン・アクション: 人間行為の経済学 / ''Hyūman akushon: Ningen kōi no keizaigaku'', 春秋社, Tōkyō: Shunjūsha. {{ISBN|978-4393621837}}; {{oclc|675632995}}
* In Korean (2009) as ''인간행동'' {{ISBN|978-89-6228-374-7}}
* In Bulgarian (2011) as ''Човешкото действие: Трактат по икономика'', София: Издателска къща "МАК"  {{ISBN|9789548585248}}
* In Dutch (2016) as ''Het menselijk handelen: een economische verhandeling'', Amsterdam: Stichting Pierson & Templeton. {{ISBN|978-9082480405}}
* In Romanian (2002), as „Acțiunea umană. Un tratat de economie" available on-line at http://mises.ro/43/actiunea-umana.
* In Swedish (2021), as ''Mänskligt handlande'', Stockholm: Timbro förlag. {{ISBN|978-9177032236}}