Biographies

Americans will never reclaim the dream if presidents like Lincoln and Roosevelt are held up as examples of "great" presidents.

The Treasury needed someone who could clothe the bareness of financial heresy with a plausible nontransparent drapery. Mr. Keynes was taken into the British Treasury as its principal adviser, seated on the board of the Bank of England, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Keynes of Tilton.

Strigl's 1934 contribution to Austrian capital theory is brought to the English-speaking world for the first time.

Ludwig von Mises has safeguarded the foundations of a rational economic science.

My journey away from neoclassical epistemology began with my reading of works by F.A. Hayek.

Mises missed no opportunity, in private as well as in public, to proclaim his abhorrence of all forms of state intervention.

Ludwig von Mises was born in Lviv, but the specific place of his birth remained unknown.

The biggest success of his freelance career was a three-volume satirical novel.

His life was devoted to a search for truth, and he gladly shared his findings with any seeker of light.

The Malthusian fallacy created the common view that economics is cold, hardhearted, excessively rational, and opposed to the welfare of people, wri