From the author’s introduction:
The people of the world stand under the principle of power. The whole social entity is governed by power, this being the highest value peoples aspire to and by which they counted, weighed, and judged. But, contrary to what is usually assumed, it is not external power which determines everything, but fundamentally internal power is the core of the power phenomenon. As this core gradually matures over time, it bursts open the shell of external power under whose protection it grows to maturity.
![Das Gesetz Der Macht by Friedrich von Wieser](https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_650w/s3/static-page/img/Das%20Gesetz%20Der%20Macht_Friedrich%20von%20Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=k2EnA1kj 650w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_870w/s3/static-page/img/Das%20Gesetz%20Der%20Macht_Friedrich%20von%20Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=jYNZp4oQ 870w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_1090w/s3/static-page/img/Das%20Gesetz%20Der%20Macht_Friedrich%20von%20Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=rBVB7JuV 1090w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_1310w/s3/static-page/img/Das%20Gesetz%20Der%20Macht_Friedrich%20von%20Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=ZP7Cynzz 1310w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_1530w/s3/static-page/img/Das%20Gesetz%20Der%20Macht_Friedrich%20von%20Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=p-z2ZppU 1530w)
![](https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_650w/s3/static-page/img/Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=lqewdQSQ 650w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_870w/s3/static-page/img/Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=zO1LJ7kd 870w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_1090w/s3/static-page/img/Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=kqedK--i 1090w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_1310w/s3/static-page/img/Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=TZr1kM4i 1310w,https://cdn.mises.org/styles/responsive_6_9_1530w/s3/static-page/img/Wieser.jpg.webp?itok=eQ7uCNfu 1530w)
An Austrian economist who contributed to the early development of the marginalist or subjectivist school of economic thought in the late nineteenth century.