Arriving in New York in 1940, Mises found many friends from Geneva there, but no income or assets at the age of 59. Mises began writing in English. During this time, Leonard Read created FEE – the Foundation for Economic Education- which later on turned into a forum for Austrian economics. Lecture 9 of 10 from The Life, Times, and Work of Ludwig
Birth: By the late 1940s, Mises was recognized in libertarian centers, but overnight in 1949 he became a central intellectual figure by his publication of Human Action. Leonard Read and FEE became devoted Misesians, along with Hans Sennholz and Murray Rothbard. In 1953 a new edition of The Theory of Money and Credit dealt with monetary reform
Recorded at the 2007 Mises University, Jörg Guido Hülsmann discusses the life of Ludwig von Mises. Professor Hülsmann also shares excerpts from his master treatise on Mises’s life and work: Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
The 1920s and 1930s were a glorious era in the history of the Austrian School of economics. In those days, the city of Vienna saw the first genuine culture of scholars working in the tradition established by Carl Menger, and this culture radiated throughout the rest of the German-speaking world and into other countries. Many important works of
Ludwig von Mises (29 Sept. 1881-10 Oct. 1973), economist and social philosopher, was born Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (today, Lviv, Ukraine), the son of Arthur von Mises, a railroad engineer and civil servant, and Adele von Mises, born Adele Landau. Von Mises was still a small boy when his family moved to Vienna.
There’s a brand of whiny, journalists who use nostalgia to attack the affluence that capitalism has bestowed on us. Usually, they flash their columns on July 4th. Their gimmick is selfishness masked in childhood memories. The scene is always one of youthful recollection; the bucolic picnic grounds, rippling lake, quaint rural paradise of their
One of the great Austrian economists of our time is about to retire from the University of Paris, after thirty-eight years of service. Pascal Salin is the author of eleven books, dozens of scholarly papers, and hundreds of articles in which he explains and develops economic science and courageously advocates individual liberty. He is the academic
[Here is the preface to Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (Mises Institute, 2007).] In the summer of 1940, with Hitler’s troops moving through France to encircle Switzerland, Ludwig von Mises sat beside his wife Margit on a bus filled with Jews fleeing Europe. To avoid capture, the bus driver took back roads through the French countryside,
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