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Subject: Biographical-Personal-and-Intellectual: 29 records

Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

Ron Paul
Updated 2/29/2012
Ron Paul deserves a high place in the history of liberty for being the only seriously principled statesman to serve in the US House of Representatives in the last quarter of the 20th century. It should not be a surprise to discover that Ludwig vo...
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Updated 1/30/2012
"A true masterpiece!" Bettina Bien Greaves "This masterpiece on the life of Mises is a great achievement! Its contents and scope surpass all economic biographies." Jesus Huerta de Soto "The first 300 pages of this big boo...
My Years with Ludwig von Mises

Margit von Mises
Updated 12/22/2011
A moving account of her life with "Lu," from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdote...
Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard

Walter Block (ed.)
Updated 12/6/2011
In 1986, a remarkable party was held on Murray Rothbard's sixtieth birthday, and papers written in his honor were presented. Two years later the book was released. It contained many wonderful essays--both scholarly and humorous--on his work and l...
On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

Mary Sennholz
Updated 9/22/2011
This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises's honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard's reconstruction of utility and welfare...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan
Updated 9/16/2011
The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
The Essential von Mises

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 7/26/2011
A year following the death of Ludwig von MIses, Murray Rothbard wrote the book designed to inspire a new generation to take up the Misesian cause in economic theory and political action. His task was to provide an overview of Mises's writings and...
The Essential Rothbard

David Gordon
Updated 6/22/2011
Here is the book for the Age of Rothbard, precisely the primer that is needed at a time when his influence—as the most radical and compelling intellectual force in the second half of the 20th century—is higher than during any time during his lifeti...
The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Ralph Raico
Updated 5/24/2011
The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power a...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 3/11/2011
Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
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...
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...
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...
The Legacy of Max Weber

Ludwig M. Lachmann
Updated 5/15/2010
Ludwig Lachmann took a strong interest in the history of economic thought, particularly as it pertained to methodology. While he would not have claimed to be an Austrian in the Misesian tradition, his writings have influenced Austrians. Here is his s...
Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 10/15/2008
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Economics of F. A. Hayek

Peter G. Klein
Updated 7/31/2008
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Who is Murray Rothbard?

Mises.org
Updated 3/25/2008
Mises Institute Who is Murray N. Rothbard...
Who is Albert Jay Nock

Mises.org
Updated 3/25/2008
Mises Institute Who is Albert Jay Nock...
Who Is F.A. Hayek

Mises.org
Updated 3/25/2008
Mises Institute Who is F.A. Hayek...
Who is John T. Flynn

Mises.org
Updated 3/25/2008
Mises Institute Who is John T. Flynn...
Who is Frederic Bastiat?

Mises.org
Updated 3/25/2008
Mises Institute Who is Frederic Bastiat...
Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.)
Updated 4/12/2007
Llewellyn H. Rockwell (ed.) Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam...
"Mises and His Understanding of the Capitalist System"

Israel M. Kirzner
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Austrian Theory of the Marginal Use and of Ordinal Marginal Utility, The"

J. H. McCulloch
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Time, Complexity, and Change: Ludwig M. Lachmann's Contributions to the Theory of Capital"

Peter Lewin
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva: 1927-2002"

Martine Brunschwig Graf
Updated 1/15/2007
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The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas

D.T. Armentano
Updated 1/15/2007
Dominick Thomas Armentano The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Paper Capture Plug-in Capitalism...
Mises's Suggested Research Topics, 1950-1968

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 1/15/2007
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"The Collected Works of Carl Menger"

Alan R. Sweezy
Updated 1/15/2007
Alan Sweezy Review of the Collected works of Menger PDFlib 3.02 (SunOS 5.6) Our Enemy The State...

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