Translator’s Introduction

11/04/2026 Leland B. Yeager

Leland Yeager sets the book beside The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written the same year but a few months later. He traces what the two share—the recognition that nations prosper together rather than at each other’s expense—and supplies the historical background a modern listener needs: Königgrätz, Schwarzenberg, the suppression of 1848, and the Habsburg world Mises was writing from inside.

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