Ludwig von Mises’s majestic magnum opus, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, was published on September 14, 1949. In the nearly seven decades since its appearance, Human Action has come to be ...
Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of ...
Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises were two of the 20th century's foremost theorists of human action. Mises held Weber, his senior by some 17 years, in great esteem and often discussed his theories, even ...
Ludwig von Mises writing in “Human Action” (Chapter 27, Section 6 titled “Direct Government Interference with Consumption“), emphasis added: Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming ...
August is upon us, beaches beckon and Michele Bachmann has set the self-improvement bar high. She recently told The Wall Street Journal, “When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von ...
September 2019 marks 70 years since the appearance of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, one of the truly great “classics” of modern economics. Too often a “classic” means a ...