John V. Van Sickle

I first met Professor, Mises some 51 years ago. I had crossed over the Ringstrasse from my office in the Austrian Kriegsministerium with a letter of introduction from Professor Charles Rist of Paris...

From the authors: This is an elementary introduction to a vast field. We have deliberately refrained from bringing in many of the refinements of theory and for two reasons. First of all, these refinements seem more appropriate to a text for an