Ludwig von Mises: A Centenary

1881-1973

Ludwig von Mises, the one-hundredth anniversary of whose birth we celebrate on September 29, is a name still only vaguely familiar to a good many U.S. policymakers, journalists, and students of public affairs. Nevertheless he may well have been the greatest twentieth century economist— the leading exponent of the Austrian School founded by Karl Menger and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (his teachers), and in turn the teacher of Friedrich von Hayek, Eric Voegelin, Fritz Machlup, and Henry Hazlitt, among many.

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Tom Bethell

1881-1973

Ludwig von Mises, the one-hundredth anniversary of whose birth we celebrate on September 29, is a name still only vaguely familiar to a good many U.S. policymakers, journalists, and students of public affairs. Nevertheless he may well have been the greatest twentieth century economist— the leading exponent of the Austrian School founded by Karl Menger and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (his teachers), and in turn the teacher of Friedrich von Hayek, Eric Voegelin, Fritz Machlup, and Henry Hazlitt, among many.