About Ludwig von Mises
Austrian-American economist (1881–1973), a central figure of the Austrian School and a uncompromising defender of classical liberalism. Liberalism (1927) is his concise statement of the nineteenth-century liberal programme: private property, peace, free trade, and strictly limited government. Mises argued that only a market economy based on private ownership can rationally allocate resources — a claim at the heart of his lifelong critique of socialism. He was the teacher of Hayek and a major influence on libertarian thought.
Books by Ludwig von Mises
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
The magnum opus of the Austrian School and one of the most ambitious defenses of the free market ever written. Mises grounds all of economics in 'praxeology' — the logic of purposeful human action — and argues that a co…
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A foundational statement of twentieth-century libertarian and classical liberal arguments for markets, peace, and limited government.
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