Biographies

Gottfried Haberler was one of the first economists to make a case for the productivity of free trade in terms of the modern subjective theory of value.

Biography of Fritz Machlup (Dec. 15, 1902–Jan. 30, 1983), by Mark Thornton.

Margit and Ludwig von Mises were a magnificent team. Margit was unsurpassed in devotion to Mises the person in life and in perpetuating his memory and his ideas after his death.

Hans Sennholz (February 3, 1922 - 23 June 2007), professor at Grove City College, was one of a handful of men in intellectual history who were able

The 1920s and 1930s were a glorious era in the history of the Austrian School of economics.

Claude Frederic Bastiat was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government. Perhaps the main underlying theme of Bastiat's writings was that the free market was inherently a source of "economic harmony".

One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises, in the course of a long and highly productiv

The Frederick L. Maier Lecture, recorded at Mises University 2007.

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.

This work of six years of labor appeared in 1940. It was the predecessor to Human Action published nine years later. Epistemology and value theory were the two central problems.