“You’re all a bunch of socialists!”
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Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian and American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions of classical liberalism and the central role of consumers in a market economy. He is best known for his work in praxeology, particularly for studies comparing communism and capitalism, as well as for being a defend…
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culture · Austrian–American political economist (1881–1973) · economist · philosopher · university teacher · writer · also Ludwig von Mises, Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises, Ludwig Heinrich Mises, Mises
Born 29 September 1881 · Died 10 October 1973 · Q84233
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Bloomberg L.P.: Ludwig von Mises Is Latin America’s Leading Economist
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Ludwig von Mises and the Debt Ceiling
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2019· 2 entries
Washington Times: Ludwig von Mises’ defense of free enterprise is lost on socialists
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Heartland: Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: Marking 70 Years of Continuing Relevance
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2016· 1 entry
Heartland: The Continuing Relevance of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action’
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2013· 1 entry
American Enterprise Institute: Ludwig Von Mises: Supporters of the Drug War Unwittingly Endorse Censorship, Inquisition, Religious Intolerance, and Persecution of Dissenters
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1982· 1 entry
By Lew Rockwell, Burton Blumert, and Murray Rothbard, following a split between the Cato Institute and Rothbard, who had been one of the founders of the Cato Institute
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1973· 1 entry
Died 1973-10-10.
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1969· 2 entries
As "Distinguished Fellow" by the American Economic Association
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Though he was not salaried by the university
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1962).
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Mises received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art for political economy at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D
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1974, and 1980) (Collection of essays and addresses)
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1956· 2 entries
By his alma mater, the University of Vienna, when his doctorate was memorialized on its 50th anniversary and "renewed", a European tradition, and in 1962 by the Austrian government
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Hayek said: "I came to know him as one of the best educated and informed men I have ever known"
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1951· 1 entry
“The Transmission of the Ideals of Freedom”
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1947· 1 entry
Mises became one of the founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society
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1940· 1 entry
Mises and his wife arrived in New York City
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1938· 1 entry
And was a founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947
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1934· 2 entries
Mises left Austria for Geneva, Switzerland, where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940
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Mises fled from Austria to Switzerland to escape the Nazis, and in 1940 he emigrated from Switzerland to the United States
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1927· 1 entry
Ludwig von Mises alongside fellow economist Friedrich August von Hayek established the Austrian Institute for Business-Cycle Research
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1922· 1 entry
“Socialism : An Economic and Sociological Analysis”
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1920· 1 entry
Mises introduced the economic calculation problem as a critique of socialist states which are based on planned economies and renunciations of the price mechanism
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1919· 2 entries
Mises wrote, "one can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism
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“one can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism. Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obvious more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier.”
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1906· 2 entries
Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor of Philosophy (1900–1906).
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Was awarded his doctorate from the school of law
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1902· 1 entry
Was an economic history of the region titled The Development of the Relation between Lord and Peasant in Galicia (1772–1848) (Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien)
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1881· 2 entries
Into an Austrian-Jewish family in Lemberg, then capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of Ukraine
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Born 1881-09-29.
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