Ludwig Von Mises

This is volume 19 in the "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers" series. Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973) was a prominent figure in the Austrian School of economics. He was an intransigent advocate of laissez-faire who believed that the government should not intervene in the economy at all. As early as 1920, he claimed that socialism would fail economically. Born in Austria, he later fled Nazism and came to the US, where he taught at New York University until 1969. The Keynesian revolution that took over American economics made his ideas on economic reasoning and policy seem old-fashioned. However, he was instrumental in helping establish an Austrian School of economics in the US and his most famous student, F. A. Hayek, would win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for his work building on Mises' business cycle theory. "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers" provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines, and traditions - the first series of its kind. Even the selection of thinkers adds another aspect to conservative thinking, including not only theorists but also writers and practitioners.
The series comprises twenty volumes, each including an intellectual biography, historical context, critical exposition of the thinker's work, reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography including references to electronic resources, and an index.