Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193355018X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ira Katz said A book worthy of the man. Great lives make great biographies. If only this were always true. One problem is that many biographies, including very long books, are written about the mediocre, or even the boring (think of politicians). Another problem is that so often a hash is made of the effort to explain an interesting life. I am . Peter van Maanen said A great and very readable work. Reading this book was a pleasure. It is not just that this book is extremely readable, it is also a great work in the history of ideas and as a biography very fitting to the greatest mind of the social sciences, Ludwig von Mises. Maybe that's what makes reading it so exciting: that you come to realize jus. Completely original, startlingly brilliant This book was ten years in the making and the results are still beyond what anyone expected. Too many books on the Austrian School, particularly by Americans on what happened in European thought, continue to recycle the same old secondary sources, so you hardly ever read anything new.But this book goes to
. Jorg Guido Hulsmann, professor of economics at the University of Paris (Angers), tells the full story of his dramatic and inspiring life and contributions – and in the course of it, provides not only a reconstruction of the history of the Austrian School of economics of which Mises was the leading expositor, and not only of the entire history of economic thought on the Continent and the United States, but also of the
About the Author Jorg Guido Hulsmann, professor of economics at the University of Paris (Angers), tells the full story of his dramatic and inspiring life and contributions – and in the course of it, provides not only a reconstruction of the history of the Austrian School of economics of which Mises was the leading expositor, and not only of the entire history of economic thought on the Continent and the United States, but also of the political and intellectual history of the 20th century. And though the book is huge (1,200 pages) it reads like a great novel, with a fast
But he was not deterred in any respect: not in his scientific work, not in his writing or publishing, and not in his relentless fight against every form of statism. Here is a magisterial book for today and the ages, one that inspires awe for both the subject and the author who accomplished the seemingly impossible: a sweeping intellectual biography, constructed from original sources, of the 20th century's most astonishing dissident intellectual. And thus the subtitle of this book. The last knight of liberalism triumphed.. During his lifetime, they were largely correct. Born in 1881, he taught in Europe and the Americas during his century, and died in 1973 before the dawn of a new epoch that would validate his life and ideals in the minds of millions of people around the world. It has the apparatus of a great scholarly work but the drama of a classic novel.Ludwig von Mises’s colleagues in Europe called him the “last knight of liberalis