SUPPOSE that a man, going through a wood, should be struck by a falling tree and pinned down beneath it. Suppose that another man, coming that way and finding him there, should, instead of hastening to give or to bring aid, begin to lecture on the law of gravitation, taking the tree as an illustration.

My Years
with
Ludwig
von Mises

My Years
with
Ludwig
von Mises

Margit von Mises

Copyright © 1976 by Margit von Mises

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Von Mises, Margit.

My years with Ludwig von Mises.

THIS BOOK will hardly answer any questions about economics. It is not a book of scholarly wisdom. But it will answer many personal questions about my husband, Ludwig von Mises.1

I want to thank the many friends who helped me—in however small a way—to get the information I needed for writing this book, as well as those close friends and members of my family who lived through the writing with me. I only wish I could have mentioned all those who, in the course of the years, have been part of our lives, but I know they will understand that it was not possible.

My Years
with
Ludwig
von Mises

SOME READERS may ask: “Why does the author write a whole chapter about her youth when the title of this book is My Years with Ludwig von Mises? Others may ask: “Who was this woman whom Professor von Mises met when he was forty-four, asked to marry when he was forty-five, and did not marry until he was fifty-eight? What was she like?”