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"Mises fought for liberty at a time when all the great powers of his era, political, academic, and journalistic, had turned against it. He never surrendered."

— Hülsmann, Jörg Guido event 2007

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"Human action is purposeful behavior. Or we may say: Action is will put into operation and transformed into an agency, is aiming at ends and goals, is the ego's meaningful response to stimuli and to the conditions of its environment, is a person's conscious adjustment to the state of the universe that determines his life."

— von Mises, Ludwig event 1949

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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

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Ludwig von Mises' magnum opus and the most comprehensive systematic treatment of economics from the Austrian School perspective. Mises develops pra...

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Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

person Hülsmann, Jörg Guido event 2007

A comprehensive 1,143-page intellectual biography of Ludwig von Mises, tracing his life and the development of his economic and political thought f...

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von Mises, Ludwig

event 1881 - 1973

Austrian-American economist, founder of the Austrian School of economics, known for his work on economic calculation and praxeology

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