The archive.

Ludwig von Mises, Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel (1912) Mises’s monograph gives a systematic theory of money, money substitutes, and fiduciary media...

Ludwig von Mises, Die Gemeinwirtschaft (1932) Mises presents Die Gemeinwirtschaft as a theoretical examination of socialism...

Mises’s Liberalism is a systematic defense of classical liberalism as the institutional philosophy of social cooperation. Its thesis is not that liberty is a romantic ideal or that capitalism favors a class, but that pri...

Ludwig von Mises, Nationalökonomie (1940) Mises’s Nationalökonomie reconstructs economics as a general theory of human action...

Omnipotent Government — Summary Mises’s Omnipotent Government explains Nazism as the extreme political result of a wider anti-liberal movement, not as an inexplicable German aberration...

Summary — Planned Chaos Ludwig von Mises’s Planned Chaos argues that the twentieth century’s crisis is not the failure of capitalism but the failure of attempts to obstruct capitalism while preserving its fruits...

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action — Summary Mises’s Human Action presents economics as a science of purposive choice rather than a study of material aggregates...

Ludwig von Mises, The Anticapitalistic Mentality Mises’s essay explains a paradox: capitalism, which he credits with unprecedented mass prosperity, is hated by many of those it benefits...

Ludwig von Mises, Theory and History — Summary Ludwig von Mises’s Theory and History is a philosophical monograph on the logic of social science, economic theory, and historical explanation...

Ludwig von Mises, Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien (1772–1848) Mises’s 1902 study is an archival history of how Galicia’s manorial-peasant order passed from Polish noble domination i...

Ludwig v. Mises, “Die allgemeine Teuerung im Lichte der theoretischen Nationalökonomie” (1913) Mises’s essay intervenes in the contemporary debate over “Teuerung” by arguing that rising prices cannot be understood throug...

Die Störungen im Wirtschaftsleben der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie während der Jahre 1912/1913 — Summary Mises’s essay is an early exercise in crisis diagnosis, anchored in the specific downturn of the Habsburg e...