Mises was two months shy of his fifty-ninth birthday. He had left Vienna some years earlier, escaping only days before the Nazis ransacked his apartment, confiscated his records, and froze his assets. He had hoped to be safe in Geneva. Now nowhere in Europe seemed safe.
I swear, whenever the markets are facing crisis, the mainstream chatterboxes on financial TV and radio finally see it as appropriate to listen to w
I’m pleased to announce that two scholars will be live blogging the new bio of Mises: Wladimir Kraus, a PhD student in economics in Germany,
The Austrian economists unconditionally rejected the logical relativism implied in the teachings of the Prussian Historical School.
Ron Paul is in New Hampshire, and when I spoke to him yesterday, he told me: “So many of the people I meet mention the Mises Institute.
These books don't just put ideas back into circulation. They give the whole movement for liberty a massive boost, almost as if our glorious intellectual tradition has come back in full force.
