In the second half of Mises’s life, he did not hold a prestigious post. In fact, his career prospects sank pretty much from their height in the late 1920s—mostly because of his anti-collectivistic politics—all the way to his death in 1973. He started out as a famous economist in Europe but his life ended after years in the United States without a paid faculty position and without access to any of the prestigious publishing outlets in his profession. He once wrote that he had set out to be a reformer but only ended up as a historian of decline. What inspires us, however, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil. [Full Article]
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The Heart of a Fighter
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A great article.
Thank you for the excellent article. I’m sure that I’m not mentioning anything new to Mr. Rockwell or many readers of this website, but I believe it is accurate to say that Mises more than anyone else in the 20th century preserved and expanded rational economic science. As problematic as most of the discipline is today, I hate to think where economics would be without Mises’s contributions. Of particular note are his contributions to value theory, monetary theory, the business cycle, economic calculation, and epistemology.
Thank you Ludwig von Mises for your courage and integrity, and for your unsurpassed contributions to economic science.
The biographical info about von Mises was surprisingly interesting.
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