All Posts Tagged With: "Ludwig von Mises"
Social Cooperation, Part 2
Last month I wrote about Ludwig von Mises’s emphasis on social cooperation as the basis of his economic philosophy, particularly in his magnum opus, Human Action. I thought I’d follow up with more thoughts on this subject. Mises was no maverick in this regard. Interest in social cooperation pervades the best classical-liberal and libertarian thought. [...]
30Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedSocial Cooperation
At FEE’s Advanced Austrian Economics Seminar last summer, more than one speaker mentioned that Ludwig von Mises considered a different title for the book we know as Human Action. The other title? Social Cooperation. I’ve heard that story before, but this time it got me thinking: Would the free-market movement have been perceived differently by [...]
26Oct2011 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: Economist, Philosopher, Prophet
Editor’s Note: September 29 is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, defender of classical liberalism, and adviser to FEE. Below is a selection of Mises’s writings published in The Freeman over the years. The Market It is customary to speak metaphorically of the automatic and anonymous forces [...]
24Aug2011 | Ludwig von Mises | 0 comments | ContinuedSocial Cooperation
We should realize that the terms “individualism,” “self-reliance,” and “independence” can lend themselves to undesirable caricatures.
12Aug2011 | Sheldon Richman | 38 comments | ContinuedThe Virtue of Market Inefficiency
A living economy needs to create inefficiencies, and lots of them, to set the stage for greater efficiency and ongoing innovation.
28Jun2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 5 comments | ContinuedSocial Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction
Once one sees social institutions as “constructed,” it’s easy to take the next two steps: thinking one can deconstruct and then reconstruct them.
17Feb2011 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | ContinuedA Matter of Life and Death
Israel Kirzner once made the rather startling statement that the most important lesson he learned from Mises, one of the greatest economic theorists of his age, had nothing directly to do with economic theory at all.
11Jan2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 3 comments | ContinuedPeter Boettke Discusses Mises on EconTalk
FEE trustee Peter Boettke, professor of economics at George Mason University and a regular lecturer at our Advanced Austrian Economics Seminar , speaks about the life, work, and legacy of Ludwig von Mises on the podcast series EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts. It’s well worth listening to. Also, the Fall 2010 issue of The Journal [...]
28Dec2010 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 2 comments | ContinuedIdeas versus Interests
One of my favorite quotes about the power of ideas comes from Ludwig von Mises in Human Action: “What determines the course of a nation’s economic policies is always the economic ideas held by public opinion. No government whether democratic or dictatorial can free itself from the sway of the generally accepted ideology.” This is [...]
22Dec2010 | Isaac M. Morehouse | 11 comments | ContinuedDoes Saving Reduce GDP?
Warren C. Gibson’s article, “GDP: Who Needs It?” in the May 2010 edition of the Freeman, asserts an inconsistency. He correctly denigrates the Keynesian notion of promoting consumption spending as a means of promoting GDP growth: “The predominance of consumption seems to have spawned the bizarre notion that if we can only get consumer spending [...]
24Nov2010 | and James C. W. Ahiakpor | 2 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Can There Be Free Trade in a Mixed Economy? To the Editor: Although I don’t see any flaws in your arguments about the theory of free trade in your column for the April 2004 issue of The Freeman, you should at least acknowledge the distortions in most any nation’s economy because of government intervention and [...]
5Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedHayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
Bruce Caldwell notes that “challenge” describes the career of Austrian economist F. A. Hayek in several senses. Hayek frequently challenged prevailing ideas. He opposed economic planning when its popularity was at its zenith. He rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes even as the vast majority of economists and policy makers enthusiastically embraced them. He [...]
2Jul2010 | Gene Callahan | 2 comments | ContinuedCan We Afford to Avoid the Truth?
The Times is urging us in the name of “cost reduction” to accept a huge new government expense that will affect us all in ways we cannot imagine because the regime in power declares that it will cut costs. It must be so because, well, it must be so.
16Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 4 comments | ContinuedWSJ on Mises' B-Cycle
Did anyone happen to catch this article in Friday’s WSJ? “The Man Who Predicted the Depression–Ludwig von Mises explained how government-induced credit expansions led to imbalances in the economy.“
10Nov2009 | Paul Cwik | 1 comment | ContinuedHappy Birthday…
… Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)!
29Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedHappy Anniversary, Human Action!
September 14, 1949, was the official publication date of Ludwig von Mises’s immortal treatise, Human Action. While the book is long and apparently daunting, it is amazingly accessible for interested readers. It is well written and well organized, so don’t let the length keep you away from the most important book in economics.And don’t forget [...]
14Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedHuman Action as a Work of Art
What can one say briefly about Human Action? When it was being written and people would ask what it was to be about, the answer given among Mises’s students was: Everything. Indeed. From the setting forth of praxeology as the a priori science of human action, to the description of the market’s operation, to the [...]
19Aug2009 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued-
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