Margit von Mises

Margit Serény von Mises (1890–1993) was an actress from Hamburg, and the wife of Ludwig von Mises. They met in 1925 and married on 6 July 1938. She wrote a memoir, My Years with Ludwig von Mises, of which Rothbard writes: “Margit’s greatest achievement in the Mises industry was her wonderful memoir of her life together with Lu, a touching and romantic, as well as dramatic, story, on which she embarked after Lu’s death in 1973, and which she published three years later...”

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Free Market Margit von Mises
The Free Market 2, no. 3 (June 1984) Mrs. Mises delivered this speech on February 27, 1984, at the Mises Institute dinner in her honor in New York City. Thank you, Mr. Rockwell, for your most generous...

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Margit von Mises
A moving account of her life with “Lu,” from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdotes on

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