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Author: Ludwig-von-Mises: 53 records

About Ludwig von Mises

1881 - 1973

Ludwig von Mises was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economic thought, a prodigious originator in economic theory, and a prolific author. Mises's writings and lectures encompassed economic theory, history, epistemology, government, and political philosophy. His contributions to economic theory include important clarifications on the quantity theory of money, the theory of the trade cycle, the integration of monetary theory with economic theory in general, and a demonstration that socialism must fail because it cannot solve the problem of economic calculation. Mises was the first scholar to recognize that economics is part of a larger science in human action, a science that Mises called "praxeology."

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Planned Chaos

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2014

This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title com...
Liberty and Property

Ludwig von Mises Updated 7/30/2014

In 1956, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn'...
Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition

Ludwig von Mises Updated 6/18/2014

This is Mises's classic statement in defense of a free society, one of the last statements of the old liberal school and a text from which we can continue to learn. It has been the conscience of a global movement for liberty for 80 years. This...
On Equality and Inequality

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/15/2014

Essay by Mises: On Equality and Inequality...
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

Ludwig von Mises Updated 4/10/2014

This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system woul...
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

Ludwig von Mises Updated 11/20/2013

New hardcover edition, introduction by Murray N. Rothbard Like Hayek, Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises's writings on these...
Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises (Middle of the Road Leads to Socialism; Liberty and Property)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/10/2013

In "Liberty and Property," Mises demonstrates how poverty, starvation, disease, and serfdom dominated the pre-capitalist ages, and how the market brought liberation for the masses of men. Socialism, in contrast, embodies hatred for liberty...
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Ludwig von Mises Updated 4/26/2013

This might be Mises's best-selling book. This new release is certainly the most beautiful edition to appear yet. It is a very clear explanation of the basics of economic policy: private property, free trade, exchange, prices, interest, money and...
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Ludwig von Mises Updated 3/22/2012

In 1954, after a lifetime of serious theoretical work in economic science, Mises turned his attention to one of the great puzzles of all time: discovering why the intellectuals hate capitalism. The result is this socio-psycho-cultural analysis inform...
The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/31/2011

This is a "new" book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a w...
Critique of Interventionism, A

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/30/2011

In the sequence of Mises's books concerning policy, this book followed Socialism, and was the first to present a new theory of interventionism. In Mises's view, interventionism is an inherently unstable policy because it creates new disloc...
Human Action

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/20/2011

The masterpiece first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in English in 1949. It was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ever published. And now, in 2010, the seemingly impossible has ha...
Money, Method, and the Market Process

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2011

Edited by Richard M. Ebeling This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement,"...
The Quotable Mises

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/13/2011

Ludwig von Mises was the greatest economist of the twentieth century, but often readers are reluctant to tackle his major works. They fear that they will be unable to follow that abstract and relentless theoretical progression of, e.g., Human Action...
The Clash of Group Interests

Ludwig von Mises Updated 8/26/2011

In this thrilling essay written in 1945, Mises lays out a theory of social organization in response to the Marxist critique of the free society. He explains that the Marxist view is wrong concerning its claim that there is a clash of group interests...
Profit and Loss

Ludwig von Mises Updated 8/15/2011

In 1951, Mises gave an outstanding paper that made the summary case for the price system under capitalistic economic systems. In "Profit and Loss," he explains how cost accounting is the critical institution that ferrets out social waste, e...
Planning for Freedom; and Twelve other Essays and Addresses

Ludwig von Mises Updated 7/18/2011

An enduring collection of Mises's essays, some popular and others scholarly, but always engaging and provocative. The first edition came out in 1952, and headlined the essay "Planning for Freedom," which makes the point that the choice...
Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation

Ludwig von Mises Updated 6/17/2011

In the 1960s, Ludwig von Mises lectured often on money and inflation. Bettina Bien Greaves was there taking shorthand. She has been working to transcribe them for a very long time. At last the results are here and they are fantastic. To have this w...
The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays

Ludwig von Mises Updated 2/2/2011

In this thrilling essay written in 1945, Mises lays out a theory of social organization in response to the Marxist critique of the free society. He explains that the Marxist view is wrong concerning its claim that there is a clash of group interests...
The Theory of Money and Credit

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/26/2011

Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made his reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age. We t...
Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/21/2011

This little essay offers something spectacular: an intellectual history of Mises's own tradition, with first person accounts of conversations with the greats. And truly, Mises turns out to have written the best single account of the origin and ea...
Liberalismus

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/20/2011

Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1927...
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/5/2011

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defec...
Bureaucracy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/5/2011

Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements, summed up in his sweeping conclusion: "The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is...
The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/9/2010

Stimulus or laissez-faire? That's the essential debate about what to about financial crisis in our time. It was the same in the 1930s. In this world before and after the Great Depression, there was a lone voice for sanity and freedom: Ludwig...
Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, The

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/3/2010

If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the very core of economics as a science, and it is the last book that he wrote. For t...
Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/3/2010

We can't sit under Mises at his famous Vienna private seminar. We can't go back in time and attend his New York seminar, or follow him to his speaking engagements that he held in the 50s and 60s. But thanks to this second volume in a thrilli...
National Economy and Rotary

Ludwig von Mises Updated 6/29/2010

In 1931, the International Rotary held its annual convention in Vienna, Austria. For the meeting, Rotary issued a tabloid. It contained information about Rotary's agenda for that convention, its international activities, and articles by Rotary me...
Nation, State, and Economy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2010

This was Mises's second book. It was written following his military service in World War I. It is also his first book that dealt with political themes--and began Mises's full-scale launch into the fight against collectivism that would be a th...
Memoirs

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2010

These are difficult times for those who love freedom. But they are nothing like what Mises faced during his life. He prevailed, and his Memoirs explain how. We can learn from Mises in this respect too. "How one carries on in the face of u...
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/25/2010

Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism is the most important critical examination of socialism ever written. Socialism is most famous for Mises’s penetrating economic calculation argument. The book contains much more however. Mises not only shows the imposs...
Manipulation of Money and Credit, On the

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/20/2010

Ludwig von Mises Causes of the Economic Crisis Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Mises's book Socialism might be the bravest and most revolutionary book of the 20th century. Here is the second edition of the German original, with a beautiful cover and handsomely bound for the serious reader and collection....
Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Here is the German original of what later became Human Action. It was published first in 1940 after years in exile in Geneva. At last this masterpiece is avaiable again, in a gorgeously bound hardback....
Epistemological Problems of Economics

Ludwig von Mises Updated 4/20/2010

"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise,...
II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 10/19/2009

II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued) Ludwig von Mises Human Action: A Treatise on Economics...
II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 10/18/2009

II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued) Ludwig von Mises Human Action: A Treatise on Economics...
II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 10/18/2009

II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued) Ludwig von Mises Human Action: A Treatise on Economics...
II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 10/18/2009

II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued) Ludwig von Mises Human Action: A Treatise on Economics...
II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 10/18/2009

II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action (continued) Ludwig von Mises Human Action: A Treatise on Economics...
Theorie des geldes und der Umlaufsmittel

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2009

Here is the first edition, 1912, of Mises's great book translated as Theory of Money and Credit. This is the German original in a gorgeous cover. This book changed monetary economics for ever. Now you can own a perfect reprint of the original...
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/27/2009

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defec...
Observations on Professor Hayek’s Plan

Ludwig von Mises Updated 2/4/2009

Ludwig von Mises Omnipotent Government...
Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien: 1772–1848;

Ludwig von Mises Updated 11/12/2008

Mises Die Entwicklung des Gutsherrlich-Bauerlichen Verhaltnisses...
Probleme der Wertlehre

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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Die geldtheoretische Seite des Stabilisierungsproblems

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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Geldwertstabilisierung and Konjunkturpolitik.

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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Les Illusions du Protectionnisme et de l`Autarcie

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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"Comments About the Mathematical Treatment of Economic Problems"

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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Mises's Suggested Research Topics, 1950-1968

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

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