My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher

The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years, Audiobook

Tags: History of the Austrian School of Economics

05/11/2026 Hans-Hermann Hoppe

While he was never mentioned in West German economic textbooks, his name figured prominently in Commie East Germany. In one of these textbooks, you could also find some detailed criticisms of Western, so-called bourgeois economics and economists, among them Friedman and Hayek, but in particular also Mises, who was singled out as the most wrongheaded, dangerous, and detestable of them all.

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