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Human Action: The 60th Anniversary
We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of a great book, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, by a learned man and a clear thinker: the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. It presents Mises’s understanding–after long years of study and thought–of how the market economy functions. It is a major contribution to human knowledge. Interventionist ideas [...]
19Aug2009 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises and the Vienna of His Time – Part II
From the time of World War I, Ludwig von Mises’s writings expressed the classical-liberal cosmopolitan conception of man, society, and freedom. Throughout the interwar period his works on the general principles of the liberal market order, the dangerous dead end to which socialist society would lead, and the contradictions and corrupting influences of economic interventionism [...]
1Apr2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises and The Vienna of His Time (Part 1)
Ludwig von Mises was a passionate advocate of reason who deeply believed in the value of human freedom. He also was a patriotic cosmopolitan; that is, in the years before he left Europe in 1940, Mises was deeply loyal to the Austria of his birth, while adhering to a philosophy and an outlook on life [...]
1Mar2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued-
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