This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises's honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard's reconstruction of utility and welfare theory.
This volume contains:
- Dedication--Ludwig von Mises
- Part One: Grato Animo Beneficiique Memores
- The Intransigence of Ludwig von Mises (Jacques Rueff)
- On Reading von Mises (William E. Rappard)
- Two of Ludwig von Mises' Most Important Works
- Part Two: On the Nature of Man and Government
- Order vs. Organization (Bertrand de Jouvenal)
- On Democracy (Hans F. Sennholz)
- The Road to Totalitarianism (Henry Hazlitt)
- The Greatest Economic Charity (F.A. Harper)
- Part Three: On Scientific Method
- The Place of Economics Among the Sciences (Wilhelm Röpke)
- On Methodology in Economics (Faustino Ballvé)
- Some Considerations on Economic Laws (Carlo Antoni)
- Averages and Aggregates in Economics (Louis M. Spadaro)
- The Inferiority Complex of the Social Sciences (Fritz Machlup)
- Part Four: The Economics of Free Enterprise
- The Market Economy and the Distribution of Wealth (L.M. Lachmann)
- Unearned Riches (Leonard E. Read)
- The Yield from Money Held (W.H. Hutt)
- The Accelerator and Say's Law (William H. Peterson)
- Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economic (Murray N. Rothbard)
- Part Five: The Hampered Market Economy
- Progressive Taxation Reconsidered (F.A. Hayek)
- Is Further Intervention a Cure for Prior Intervention? (Percy L. Greaves, Jr.)
- Part Six: On Socialism
- French Socialism (Louis Baudin)
ASIN B000BER5W6
333 pp. (pb)