Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Miseswas a theoretical Austrian School economist. He is best known for his work on praxeology, a study of human choice and action. Mises emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1940. Mises's writings have exerted significant influence on the libertarian movement in the United States since the mid-20th century...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth29 September 1881
CountryAustria
Ludwig von Mises quotes about
war men economic
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
citizens failing economics
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.
liberty economics fallacy
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
government liberty economic
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.
economic reaching speculation
Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.
world environment economic
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.
economic economy sovereignty
What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.
competition economic social
The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.
government economic monetary-system
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
mean economic human-life
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.
liberty libertarian economic
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
want way economic
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
economic liberalism
Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism
progress trends economic-history
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.