[This article is excerpted from Memoirs by Ludwig von Mises.] Ludwig von Mises is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles in which he made pioneering contributions to economics, history, the philosophy of science, and social philosophy. He had a direct personal influence on many outstanding social scientists such as F.A. Hayek,
Two months ago, on May 16, the great French economist Pascal Salin celebrated his 70th birthday. I first met Professor Salin in late 1997, in his office at the University of Paris-Dauphine. When I mentioned that I had been drawn to the Austrian School not least of all because of Mises’s epistemology, he raised his eyebrows and put on a skeptical
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the most important scholars of our time. He has made pioneering contributions to sociology, economics, philosophy, and history. He is the dean of the present-day Austrian School of economics, and is famous as a libertarian philosopher. He and his writings have inspired scholars all over the world to follow in his
[From Property, Freedom and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe .] Hans-Hermann Hoppe is famous for his ground-breaking studies on the epistemology of the social sciences, on the ethics of capitalism, and on democracy. But he also made original and important contributions in various other fields, such as monetary economics. [1] Money
Congressmen Ron Paul and Alan Grayson seek to bring more transparency and accountability to the U.S. central bank and “to subject the Fed’s monetary policy and discount-lending actions to an audit by the Government Accounting Office (GAO).” In opposition to these efforts to audit the Federal Reserve System, some 270 economists [XLS] have signed an
This magazine is pretty high profile in Germany, and this article is the latest installment of a series on “great economists.” Mises is being referred to by mainstream journalists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as a matter of course. Recently the upper house of the Luxembourg parliament published a minority report on the economic crisis
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