Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973): Chronological Bibliography
1930-1934
LUDWIG VON MISES (1881-1973)
Chronological
Bibliography
1930
ARTICLES:
"Begreifen
und Verstehen" [Conception
and Understanding]. Jahrbuch
für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft
(Schmollers Jahrbuch). 54:2(1930)331-43. Discusses the difference
between concepts in the natural and social sciences. In the latter, one
must begin from an intuitive grasp of the 'inner' meaning of action.
Included in Epistemological
Problems of Economics French translation
of Parts I-III, by P. Roubier and H. Mankiewicz. "Entendre et
Comprendre"in Recueil
d`Études en l`honneur d`Edouard Lambert(n.d.).
"Das
Wirtschaftssystem des Interventionismus" [The Interventionist Economic
System]. Mitteilungen
des deutschen Hauptverbandes der Industrie(Teplitz-Schönau).
11:31(July 31, 1930)569-571.
"The Suitability of Methods
of Ascertaining Changes in Purchasing Power for the Guidance of
International Currency or Banking Policy."
League
of Nations.(October
10, 1930). Included in Money,
Method, and the Market Process .
OTHER:
"Anpassung
der öffentlichen Ausgaben an die Tragfähigkeit der
Wirtschaft" [Adjustment of Public Spending to Economic Productivity]. Industrieller
Klub. 351(December 10, 1930) A lecture given in Vienna,
December 1, 1930.
1931
BOOKS:
The
Causes of the Economic Crisis. A lecture
before an assembly of German industrialists (Deutscher Hauptverband der
Industrie) at Teplitz-Schönau, Czechoslovakia, February 28,
1931. An explanation of the reasons why the "great depression"
persisted.
- First
edition: Die
Ursachen der Wirtschaftskrise: Ein Vortag [The
Causes of the Economic Crisis: A Lecture]. Tübingen: J.C.B.
Mohr(Paul Siebeck), 1931. Originally published in two installments in Mitteilungen
des Deutschen Hauptverbandes der Industrie.
Dutch
translation by A.J. Bergsma: De Oorzaken
van de Economische Crisis. Foreward
by the translater. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1933.
English
translation by Bettina Bien Greaves: in On
the Manipulation of Money and Credit, 1978.
Spanish
translation of English translation from On the
Manipulation of Money and Credit: "Las
causas de la crisis económica." Libertas. 3:5
(October 1986) 213-239. Buenos Aires: La Escuela Superior de
Económica y Administración de Empresas(ESEADE),
1986. Excerpt of Spanish translation in two parts. First installment
not available. Continuation: Negocios y Bancos. 75(June 15, 1989) 24-25.
ARTICLES:
"Vom
Weg der subjektivistischen Wertlehre" [On the Development of the
Subjective Theory of Value]. Probleme der
Wertlehre, Part I. Ludwig Mises and Arthur Spiethoff, eds. Schriften
des Vereins für Sozialpolitik.
183(Munich & Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1931)73-93.
Discusses the origins of the subjective theory of value. As developed
by Menger, value theory was in a position to solve problems that the
British classical economists could not answer. Included in Epistemological Problems
of Economics .
"Die
psychologischen Wurzeln des Widerstandes gegen
die Nationalökonomische Theorie" [The Psychological Basis of
the Opposition to Economic Theory]. Probleme der
Wertlehre, Part I. Ludwig Mises and Arthur Spiethoff, eds. Schriften
des Vereins für Sozialpolitik.
183(Munich & Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1931)275-95.
Given the evident truth of marginal utility, why do some social
scientists reject it? The reason ties in a general social trend of
irrationalism. Reason is deprecated and romantic illusions prevail.
Included in Epistemological
Problems of Economics .
"Das festangelegte Kapital" [Inconvertible Capital].
Economische Opstellen: Aangeboden aan Prof. C.A.
Verrijn Stuart [Economic
Essays: Presented to Prof. C.A. Verrijn Stuart]. (Haarlem: De Erven F.
Bohn N.V., 1931)214-28. It is not an argument against the efficiency of
capitalism that 'excess' or unused capital exists. Given the need of
producers for flexibility in meeting changes in demand, sometimes the
most efficient course will be to hold productive assets in reserve.
Included in Epistemological
Problems of Economics .
"Unrentabilität als Prinzip"
[Unprofitability as a Principle]. Allgemeiner
Tarifanzeiger [General
Price Reports]: Sonderausgabe
aus Anlass des L. Jahrganges der Zeitschrift [Special
50th Anniversary Edition of the Periodical]. (1931)67-68.
"Die bankpolitischen Lehren der Krisis" [The
Banking Theories of the Crisis]. Allgemeiner
Tarifanzeiger. 31(August
1, 1931)1000-01.
"Die Krise und der Kapitalismus" [ The
Crisis and Capitalism] Neue Freie
Presse. #24099(October 17, 1931)13.
"Die Goldwährung und ihre Gegner" [The Gold
Standard and Its Enemies]. Neue Freie
Presse. In two parts: 24168(December 25, 1931)24;
24171(December 30, 1931)11.
OTHER:
"Die Stellung des Geldes im Kreise der
wirtschaftlichen Güter"[The Role of Money in the
Realm of Economic Goods]. Published in Volume II of
a 4-volume Festschrift honoring Friedrich von Wieser. Die
Wirtschaftstheorie der Gegenwart. Hans
Mayer, ed.(Vienna, 1931/2)309-18. Gold must be regarded as an economic
good: monetary theory is part of the general theory of utility. English
translation in Money,
Method, and the Market Process.
1932
ARTICLES:
"Die Legende vom Versagen des Kapitalismus" [The
Myth of the Failure of Capitalism]. Der
internàtionale Kapitalismus und die Krise.
Festschrift for Julius Wolf, April 20, 1932.(Stuttgart, 1932)23-29.
Capitalism does not have internal structural defects that necessarily
lead to depression and collapse.
- Polish
translation: Legenda o selnáni kapitalismu" in Hospodárska
Politika (21) 27 kvetna (1933)402-04.
English
translation by Jane E. Sanders in The Clash
of Group Interests and Other Essays,
(1978)13-18.
OTHER:
"The Great German Inflation."
Economica. 12:36(May 1932)227-34. Discusses causes of the 1923 German
hyperinflation in the course of a review of Frank Graham, Prices and
Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany, 1920-1923
(Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1932. Reprinted in Money, Method, and the
Market Process.
"Der Kampf um die englische Handelspolitik" [The
Controversy over English Trade Policy]. Neue Freie
Presse. 449(June 25, 1932)17. A review of the German
translation of an anthology edited by Willism Beveridge.
Review of Rudolph Sieghart's
Die
Letzten Jahrzehnte einer Grossmacht: Menschen, Völker und
Probleme des Habsburger-Reichs [The Last
Decades of a Great Power: The People, the Local Inhabitants and the
Problem of the Habsburg Empire] (Berlin, 1932). Economica. Vol.
38(November 1932)477-78. Sieghart's book is "a most brilliant history
of the decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire." Sieghart, the chief of
the permanent staff of the Austrian Prime Minister and a leading
banker, is praised for his policy of working for peace among the
various nationalities of the AustroHungarian Empire.
1933
BOOKS:
Epistemological Problems
of Economics . A compilation of
essays, many reprinted from European economic journals, on subjective
value theory, a priori theorems,
the science of human action, the methodology of economics, and so on. more
- First
edition: Grundprobleme
der Nationalökomomie: Untersuchungen über Verfahren,
Aufgaben und Inhalt der Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftslehre. Jena:
Gustav Fischer, 1933.
English
translation by George Reisman. With a Preface to the English-language
Edition by Ludwig von Mises. Includes "The
Task and Scope of the Science of Human Action" written
for inclusion in the 1933 anthology. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co.,
Inc., 1960.
Reprint
of 1960 English translation with a new Foreword by Ludwig M. Lachmann
(© Institute for Humane Studies, 1976). New York: New York
University Press, 1981.
Italian
translation of the 1981 English edition: Problemi Epistemologici
dell`economia. Translated by Elda Guglielmetti. Edited by Lorenzo
Infantino. (Series: I classici del`epistemologia). Rome: Armando, 1988.
ARTICLES:
"Planwirtschaft und Sozialismus" [Economic
Planning and Socialism]. Neues
Wiener Tagblatt. 78(March
19, 1933)2-3.
"The Return to a Free Foreign Exchange Market." Paris:
International Chamber of Commerce, May 30, 1933. Mimeographed;
cited(p.2n) by Howard S. Ellis in "Exchange Control in Austria and
Hungary." Quarterly
Journal of Economics. 54:1
(November 1939)1-186.
"Der Stand und die nächste Zukunft der
Konjunkturforschung" [The
Current Status of Business Cycle Research and its Prospects for the
Immediate Future]. Festschrift
für Arthur Spiethoff (Munich:
Duncker & Humblot, 1933)175-80. Discusses recent trends in
business cycle research. Empirical work needs to be integrated with
correct theory.
- English
translation by Joseph R. Stromberg: "From Crank-Up to Crack-Up," The
Libertarian Forum (New
York). (June 1975)3-5.
English
translation by Bettina Bien Greaves: "The Current Status of Business
Cycle Research and Its Prospects for the Immediate Future" in On
the Manipulation of Money and Credit, (1978)207-13.
"Mündiche Aussprache über die
Wertlehre im theoretischen Ausschuss des Vereins für
Sozialpolitik"
[Discussion of Value Theory in the Committee on Theory of the
Association for Social Policy], September 30, 1932, Dresden. Probleme
der Wertlehre [Problems
of Value Theory] Part II. Ludwig Mises & Arthur Spiethoff, eds.
Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik. 183:2
(Munich & Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1933) 1-12,37
& 116-20. Discusses the theories of value popular in the Verein
für Sozialpolitik, the leading German academic association for
the discussion of the social sciences. The members of this group were
largely ignorant of economic theory and under the sway of the German
Historical School. Othmar Spann is criticized here. Excerpt, "Der
Streit um die Wertlehre" [The
Controversy over the Theory of Value], included in Epistemological Problems
of Economics .
OTHER:
"Senior's Lectures on
Monetary Problems." Economic
Journal. 43:171(1933)525-30. A review of Nassau W.
Senior's lectures (Nos. 3,4 and 5 in the series of Reprints of
Scarce Tracts in Economic and Political Science. London
School of Economics and Political Science). In the guise of a review of
Nassau Senior's lectures, Mises discusses contemporary monetary policy.
Senior wrote about the same problems we face today. Mises defends the
"automatic" balancing principle that operates under the gold standard.
Reprinted in Money,
Method, and the Market Process.
1934 Accepts a position as Professor of International Economic Relations
- at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva,
Switzerland, while retaining a part-time association with the Austrian
Chamber of Commerce in Vienna.
ARTICLES:
"Grundsätzliches zur Frage der
Geldwertstabilisierung"
[Fundamental Considerations With Respect to Monetary Stabilization]. Welt
Wirtschafftswoche (Vienna).
(April 1, 1934).
"Die österreichische
Nationalökonomie" [The
Austrian Economy]. Der
Wirtschafter. (April
27, 1934)316-17.
"Bilanz des XIX Jahrhunderts" [The 19th
Century on Balance]. Wiener
Wirtschaftswoche.
3(December 25, 1934)51-53.
OTHER:
"Das Währungsproblem" [The
Monetary Problem]. Mitteilungen
des Verbandes österreichischer Banken und Bankiers. 16:10/11
(November 1934)271-77. Brief plea for the gold standard. Written to be
incorporated as the Preface to the English translation(1934) of The Theory
of Money and Credit.