Critique of Interventionism by Ludwig von Mises
A
Critique
of Interventionism
by
Ludwig von Mises
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FOREWORD
My
husband wrote the essays in this book in the early 1920s, more than
fifty years ago. They were collected and published as an anthology in
1929 by Gustav Fischer, formerly in Jena, now in Stuttgart,
under the title Kritik des
Interventionismus. Although
these articles deal with the economic problems of that day,
the
same problems are still with us, perhaps in an even more serious and
menacing way than ever.
The
book has recently been republished in Germany by the
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in Darmstadt, with a preface by my
husband’s friend and former student, the illustrious
Professor
F.A. von Hayek, 1974 Nobel laureate in economics. The new German
edition includes the essay “The Nationalization of
Credit?”
which
also appears in this translation.
I
am
very happy that this book is now being made available in
English. I am no economist, but I have gone over the German and
English texts of these essays, and I congratulate Professor Hans F.
Sennholz, whom I asked to do the translation, for his
brilliant
work. He has done a remarkable job of transposing the lengthy,
complicated sentences—so typical of the German language of
the
1920s—into fluent and elegant English. I am proud to
see my
husband’s work presented in this form to a new
audience, and
I
hope it will be read widely.
MARGIT
VON MISES
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