This is Mises's intellectual biography, written after he arrived in the U.S. It was written at the lowest point of his career, at a time when he had left his homeland and was snubbed by American academia for being too anti-socialist. But his steely determination to press on is evident on every page of this affecting, personal, and powerful book.
The contents of this volume include:
- Foreword by Margit von Mises
- I. Historicism
- Extract on Historicism, Theory and History
- II. Etatism
- Extracts on:
- Etatism, Omnipotent Government
- Interventionism, Omnipotent Government
- III. The Austrian Problem
- IV. The Austrian School of Economics
- V. First Writings on The Theory of Money
- VI. The Theory of Money and Credit
- VII. First World War
- VIII. With the Chamber of Commerce
- Prevention of Bolshevist Takeover
- Halting the Inflation
- Avoidance of Banking Crisis
- Struggle Against Takeover by Germany
- IX. My Teaching Activities in Vienna
- X. Scientific Work in Germany
- XI. Further Inquiries Into Indirect Exchange
- XII. Systems of Social Cooperation
- XIII. Epistemological Studies
- Extracts on Positivism:
- The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
- Theory and History
- XIV. My Teaching in Geneva
- XV. The Struggle for Austria's Survival
- Postscript by Hans F. Sennholz
ISBN 0910884048
181 pp. (hb)