Synopses & Reviews
When he fled Austria in 1934, Ludwig von Mises left behind a wealth of writings that, he supposed, were lost forever. Seized by the Nazi Gestapo, the papers were subsequently captured by the Soviet KGB and were archived in Moscow. Their discovery in 1996, by Professors Richard and Anna Ebeling of Hillsdale College, received widespread attention. In cooperation with Hillsdale College, Liberty Fund will make available these long-lost writings, many of which have not previously appeared in English, as part of a three-volume edition of selected writings by one of the unsurpassed economists of the twentieth century. In the first of the volumes to be published are contained separate previously unpublished works that Mises wrote from 1940 through 1944, when much of the world was at war. The papers include Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria” (1940); An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe” (1943); Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy” (1943); Mexicos Economic Problems” (1943); The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies” (1944); and, A Non-Inflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction” (1944).
Richard Ebeling is Professor of Economics at Northwood University. He has served as the editor or co-editor for twenty other books, including The Age of Economists: From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and Human Action: a 50-Year Tribute.
Synopsis
When he fled Austria in 1938, Ludwig von Mises, one of the century's foremost economists, left behind a wealth of writings discovered in 1994 by Professors Richard and Anna Ebeling. Those included in volume 3 are:
Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940)
An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe (1943)
Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy (1943)
Mexico's Economic Problems (1943)
The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies (1944)
A Noninflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction (1944)
Synopsis
After he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. Among those included in this volume are:
Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940)
An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe (1943)
Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy (1943)
Mexico's Economic Problems (1943)
The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies (1944)
A Noninflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction (1944)
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian school of economics throughout most of the twentieth century.
Richard Ebeling is Professor of Economics at Northwood University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix
Richard M. Ebeling I Postwar Reconstruction 1
II Postwar Economic Reconstruction of Europe 21
III Europe’s Economic Structure and the Problem of Postwar Reconstruction 31
IV The Fundamental Principle of a Pan-European Union 43
V Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy 51
VI A Noninflationary Proposal for Postwar Monetary Reconstruction 71
VII The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies 119
VIII A Draft of Guidelines for the Reconstruction of Austria 133
IX An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe 169
X Mexico’s Economic Problems 203 Index 255