Mises on His Life and Legacy
Mises's memoirs are a unique source of inside information about the economics and politics of the first republic of Austria. They portray his professional life from about 1906 (the year he graduated with a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna) to 1940, stressing his activities in the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, in World War I, in government, and in academia. He not only knew the intellectuals of his day; he had almost daily interaction with the political leaders of his country, with the higher echelons of the civil service, and with the executives of Austrian firms and business corporations. FULL ARTICLE
Comments (6)
fundamentalist
Is there any other work that covers Mises' last decades besides Hulsmann's excellent book?
Published: June 8, 2009 10:40 AM
Jeffrey Tucker
There is Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty
Published: June 8, 2009 10:50 AM
N. Joseph Potts
I wonder who/what the translator for THIS work might be? Hülsmann? I assume not.
It's ironic that so many accounts date the onset of the worldwide Great Depression from 1931, specifically the date of the failure of the Kreditanstalt, in the very country (city) whose leaders might be thought to have been under the direct influence, if not tutelage, of Our Man.
Published: June 8, 2009 12:49 PM
Bruce Koerber
Undoing Socialism
Monday, June 8, 2009
From Mises To Menger, Back To Mises And Then To Us!
I am just getting started reading "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism." It is quite interesting to see the conditions that surrounded him as he grew up, especially his initial belief in interventionism as the wave of the future.
Like many of us he was fortunate to encounter the scientific kernal of subjectivism. It is probably true to say that had Mises not read Menger's work the value of Menger's contribution would have been lost. It is probably also true to say that had Mises not read Menger - and then fought the battle against interventionism with iron resolve - you and I would probably would be drowning in the sewage of socialism.
Instead we are fighting the battle together and will not stop unless and until liberty and prosperity are recognized as the birthright of all human beings.
Published: June 8, 2009 5:06 PM
Jule Herbert
Does this volume have different material than does the 1978 book, NOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS, which also dated from 1940? Of course, that edition has the now famous line about his becoming the "historian of decline."
Published: June 8, 2009 6:44 PM
Guy Moseley
Jule Herbert -- that's what I was wondering.
And if it doesn't, what was the reason for
the new translation and name change
and why such little mentioning of the
connection? Confusing.
Published: June 8, 2009 7:37 PM