An Interview with Fritz Machlup

Austrian Economics NewsletterVol 3, No. 1, Summer 1980.

Fritz Machlup’s contributions to economics span a period of over 45 years. Born in 1902 in Wiener Neusstadt, Austria, he published his first book Die Goldkernwahrung (The Gold Exchange Standard) in 1925, the outgrowth of a dissertation written under the supervision of Ludwig von Mises at the University of Vienna.