The 1920s and 1930s were a glorious era in the history of the Austrian School of economics. In those days, the city of Vienna saw the first genuine culture of scholars working in the tradition established by Carl Menger, and this culture radiated throughout the rest of the German-speaking world and into other countries. Many important works of
Ludwig von Mises (29 Sept. 1881-10 Oct. 1973), economist and social philosopher, was born Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (today, Lviv, Ukraine), the son of Arthur von Mises, a railroad engineer and civil servant, and Adele von Mises, born Adele Landau. Von Mises was still a small boy when his family moved to Vienna.
There’s a brand of whiny, journalists who use nostalgia to attack the affluence that capitalism has bestowed on us. Usually, they flash their columns on July 4th. Their gimmick is selfishness masked in childhood memories. The scene is always one of youthful recollection; the bucolic picnic grounds, rippling lake, quaint rural paradise of their
One of the great Austrian economists of our time is about to retire from the University of Paris, after thirty-eight years of service. Pascal Salin is the author of eleven books, dozens of scholarly papers, and hundreds of articles in which he explains and develops economic science and courageously advocates individual liberty. He is the academic
[Here is the preface to Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (Mises Institute, 2007).] In the summer of 1940, with Hitler’s troops moving through France to encircle Switzerland, Ludwig von Mises sat beside his wife Margit on a bus filled with Jews fleeing Europe. To avoid capture, the bus driver took back roads through the French countryside,
Introduction Arrival in New York National Bureau of Economic Research Dark Hours and New Plans Six Weeks in Mexico The Austrian National Committee New Friends American Citizen [This article is from chapter 18 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism .] Mises knew that it would be hard for him to find a suitable position in the United States —
La teoría de la división del trabajo es una de las piedras angulares de la economía. Es la base misma del análisis científico de la sociedad y del mercado. Según esta teoría, la cooperación entre cualquier número de personas es más productiva que los esfuerzos individuales de las mismas personas aisladas unas de otras. De ello se deduce que todos
What is the Mises Institute?
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.