Articles of Interest

Ludwig von Mises (29 Sept. 1881-10 Oct.

Biography of Fritz Machlup (Dec. 15, 1902–Jan. 30, 1983), by Mark Thornton.

Margit and Ludwig von Mises were a magnificent team. Margit was unsurpassed in devotion to Mises the person in life and in perpetuating his memory and his ideas after his death.

“I champion an economic order ruled by free prices and markets...the only economic order compatible with human freedom.”

Gottfried Haberler was one of the first economists to make a case for the productivity of free trade in terms of the modern subjective theory of value.

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (Born February 12, 1851; Died 1914) was in the right place at the right time to contribute importantly to the development of Austrian economics. Studying at the University of Vienna, he was twenty years old when Carl Menger's Principles of Economics appeared in print in 1871. His formal university training was in law (and thus he was not actually a student of Menger's), but after completing his doctorate in law in 1875, he began preparing himself both at home and abroad to teach economics in his native Austria.

One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises, in the course of a long and highly productiv

The prehistory the Austrian School of economics can be found in the works of the Spanish scholastics written in the "Spanish Golden Century."

Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of