Ludwig Von Mises: 25 books
Economic Policy
Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Economic Policy contains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios sobre la Libertad in Argentina. The lectures were posthumously edited by Mises’s wife, Margit, and George Koether, a student and long-time friend of Mises. This volume serves as an excellent introduction...
by Ludwig von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In The Anti-capitalistic Mentality, the respected economist Ludwig von Mises plainly explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. In five concise chapters, he traces the causation of the misunderstandings and resultant fears that cause resistance...
by Ludwig von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
First published in German in 1933 and in English in 1960, Epistemological Problems of Economics presents Ludwig von Mises’s views on the logical and epistemological features of social interpretation as well as his argument that the Austrian theory of value is the core element of a general theory...
Liberalism
The Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
This book presents the theoretical and practical arguments for liberalism in the classical tradition as defined by Mises as “the liberal doctrine of the harmony of the rightly understood interests of all members of a free society founded on the principle of private ownership of the means of production.”...
Interventionism
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Interventionism provides Mises’s analysis of the problems of government interference in business from the Austrian school perspective. Written in 1940, before the United States was officially involved in World War II, this book offers a rare insight into the war economies of Hitler’s Germany and...
Nation, State, and Economy
Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Essential to Mises’s concept of a classical liberal economy is the absence of interference by the state. In World War I, Germany and its allies were overpowered by the Allied Powers in population, economic production, and military might, and its defeat was inevitable.
Mises believed that...
by Ludwig von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The present volume is devoted to some of Mises’s earliest writings. As with the second volume in the series, the articles that compose this book include Mises’s policy memoranda, essays, and speeches that were found in a formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow. The articles have two primary focuses:...
Human Action
A Treatise on Economics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2007
In Human Action, Mises starts from the ideas set forth in his Theory and History that all actions and decisions are based on human needs, wants, and desires and continues deeper and further to explain how studying this human action is not only a legitimate science (praxeology) but how that science...
Omnipotent Government
The Rise of the Total State and Total War
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Published in 1944, during World War II, Omnipotent Government was Mises’s first book written and published after he arrived in the United States. In this volume Mises provides in economic terms an explanation of the international conflicts that caused both world wars. Although written more than...
Notes and Recollections
With The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Published for the first time together in one volume is Ludwig von Mises’s Notes and Recollections with The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics.
Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect Mises’s pre-1940...
Socialism
An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1981
More than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: “It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . . To none of us young men who read the book when it appeared was the...
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
An Essay on Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2006
In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that determine markets and capital decisions. Since Mises believed these links could be proven scientifically, he concluded that economics, with its basis on...
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The three treatises in On the Manipulation of Money and Credit were written in German between 1923 and 1931. Together they include some of Mises’s most important contributions to monetary and trade-cycle theories and constitute a precursor to Mises’s major work, Human Action.
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by Ludwig von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1981
The Theory of Money and Credit integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh, new insights into the nature of money and its role in the economy and bringing Mises into the front rank of European economists.
The Theory of Money and Credit...
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