Memoirs - Softcover

Ludwig Von Mises

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479353604 ISBN 13: 9781479353606

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

Synopsis

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These are difficult times for those who love freedom. But they are nothing like what Mises faced during his life. He prevailed, and his Memoirs explain how. We can learn from Mises in this respect too. "How one carries on in the face of unavoidable catastrophe is a matter of temperament," wrote Ludwig von Mises in his private memoir of his life in Europe. It was true in his time and it is true in ours. This new translation and edition of Mises's moving account of his life, published by the Mises Institute, provides not only deeply fascinating personal history; it also functions as a moral and spiritual guide for any lover of liberty during times of despotism. It was written during and after his immigration to the United States in 1940. Despite being driven from his home, seeing his country taken over by a foreign dictator, having his books burned and his papers stolen, and finally pushed out of the sanctuary he had for six years, he never lost determination and never doubted the truth of liberty.

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The results are spectacular. Mises's memoirs have come alive as never before.

With all the interest generated by the Mises biography that came out in 2008, and with the current political trends in the United Stats, this is a perfect time to examine Mises's own autobiography.

Mises inspires us with his moral example.

He tells of his strategy and teaching methods. "In my seminar, I seized every opportunity to refute popular errors." Truth is it own standard, he believed.

He talks of his private seminar and the culture it fostered. "Outsiders knew nothing of our gatherings; they saw only the published works of individual participants." They didn't cultivate a sect or society; rather they were "united in the desire to further the sciences of human action. Each was free to go the way his own law guided him."

He blasts the enemies of freedom. Of the German Historical School he writes that it "did not produce a single thought. It did not write a single page in the history of science. For eighty years it eagerly propagandized for National Socialism." Further, its members were so unprincipled that "they would have become communists had the Bolshevists come to the fore."

Finally, he admits to feelings of despair: "From time to time I entertained the hope that my writings would bear practical fruit and point policy in the right direction.... I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline."

Even with such feelings, he never gave in. He kept writing and teaching. And what a glorious legacy he left!

In this prose, we have profound determination moral determination. It wasn't enough that he was a genius of a scientist, that he made earth-shattering contributions to economics, history, philosophy, and more.

What made the difference for him was character. This is why Murray Rothbard wrote that he was not only a scholar but a hero, an example to us all. We need more like him. But in order to have that, his example needs to be there for everyone.

Guido Hulsmann writes the preface. F.A. Hayek writes the introduction. Arlene Oost-Zinner did the translation. But the book itself is pure Mises, writing his deepest and most private thoughts, now available to the world as an example, a model, and an ideal.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1479353604
• ISBN 13: 9781479353606
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126