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Genre and scope: this file is a brief single-author newspaper polemic by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from 1951, aimed at wartime finance, rearmament, inflation, and price control...
Ludwig von Mises, “Inflation Must End in a Slump” — Summary This file is a short single-author newspaper essay, reprinted from the New York World Telegram & Sun in 1951...
This file is a single policy address/transcript: Mises’s 1951 remarks on mobilization finance, later reprinted under the title “Inflation: An Unworkable Fiscal Policy.” Its scope is narrow but forceful: wartime spending,...
Liberty and Its Antithesis — Summary Liberty and Its Antithesis is a short 1960 review essay and political-theoretical intervention...
Ludwig von Mises, “Luxuries into Necessities” — Summary This short economic essay argues that capitalism’s distinctive social achievement is not the preservation of elite privilege but the rapid conversion of elite luxur...
This file is Ludwig von Mises’s 1962 review essay on Murray N. Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State, not the treatise itself...
Mises and Greaves, “On Current Monetary Problems” (1969) This 1969 interview with Percy L. Greaves presents Mises’s monetary theory as a political diagnosis...
Ludwig von Mises, “On Some Atavistic Economic Ideas” — Summary The file presents a short economic essay, with a brief editorial note locating it in a 1966 Festschrift for Jacques Rueff...
Ludwig von Mises, “On the International Monetary Problem” — Summary Mises treats the “international monetary problem” as a misnamed domestic policy problem...
Professor Hutt on Keynesianism — Summary This short review essay, reprinted from The Freeman in January 1964, presents Ludwig von Mises’s assessment of W. H. Hutt’s Keynesianism—Retrospect and Prospect...
Summary Mises’s essay is a compact anti-interventionist argument about capitalism, business size, and political hostility to the market...
Ludwig von Mises, “Socialism, Inflation, and the Thrifty Householder” — Summary This brief 1960 political-economic essay argues that the gravest threat to American liberty lies in domestic economic policy: especially the...