Mises Wire

Bettina Bien Greaves

Never published before, this short essay about Ludwig von Mises by his personal assistant, Bettina Bien Greaves, outlines what it was about Mises's creativity and scholarship that made him truly unique.

Ryan McMaken

September 29 marks the 134th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, the tallest giant of the "Austrian School" of economics. Although Mises is not a household name, Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek once referred to him as "the master of us all."