Value and Price (Capital and Interest Extract)

Business & Money

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Economics

Libertarian Press

This book has grown, from thirteen essays to seventeen essays. It is now the largest ever. There are now four additional essays of special merit. 
 Also, for the first time, an analytical and descriptive essay has been added, "The Essential Von Mises," by a former student, Murray N. Rothbard, which is extraordinarily helpful. 
 How do you introduce Mises into your thinking? Read these essays, and Rothbard's superior analysis, and you will be a better-informed person. 
 Socrates considered ethics to be the queen of all the sciences; if so, economics is the bridegroom. 
 Nobody can afford to be ignorant of economics, unless he is indifferent about having knowledge in the second most important of the social sciences.

Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

MISES, LUDWIG VON

VON MISES, LUDWIG

Notes and Recollections is, in part, an autobiography, a purely intellectual one written at the conclusion of Ludwig von Mises' European career. It was written in 1940 upon his arrival in the United States. Unlike many other autobiographies that dwell on the writer's background and family relations, this book hinges on Mises' intellectual development, and his role in the realm of social and economic thought. Disappointed by the intellectual decline and despairing of the future of European civilization, he penned his memoirs in sadness and bitterness. They are a splendid record of a farsighted observer of the darkness that had descended over Europe. 188 pages.

Ludwig von Mises, Notes and Recollections (English and German Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ludwig Von Mises

Professionals & Academics

Boehm-Bawerk's magnum opus, one of the greatest achievements in the history of economic thought. In fact, it is a Magna Carta of the capitalistic production process. In an economic order based on production, income from capital investment provides the very basis of the system and a livelihood for a large middle class, as well as capitalists and entrepreneurs. All observations about the nature and appraisals of the value of capitalism hinge upon the explanation of this capital income. Capital and Interest is divided into three parts: 
The first volume History and Critique of Interest Theories, is a diligent and persuasive analysis of virtually all capital income theories. It is a critical history of interest doctrines that defend or oppose capital income. The second volume, Positive Theory of Capital, contains much more than the title seems to indicate. It presents a comprehensive theory of the entire production process. In particular, it elaborates on the principles that govern the allocation of incomes, that is, the amounts of interest, wage, and profit. Boehm-Bawerk offers a persuasive solution to all questions of income and theories of distribution. In Volume III, Further Essays on Capital and Interest, the publisher collected additional explanations and commentaries by the author. It comprises fourteen brilliant briefs explaining, elaborating, and defending the Positive Theory. It contains such great essays as "The Role of Disutility in the Value Theory" and "The Size of the Initial Fund that is Necessary for a Given Production Period."

Capital and Interest (3 Volumes in 1)

Professor von Mises addressed himself to a particular issue: what is the essential difference between bureaucratic management by government and market management in a system based on private ownership of the means of production? Mises does not discuss bureaus or bureaucrats, but inexorable principles of human action. He does not condemn bureaucracy, which is the appropriate technique for the conduct of government agencies such as courts of law, police departments, and the Internal Revenue Service; however, in economic production and distribution, the bureaucratic method is shown to be an abomination that spells universal ruin and disaster.

Bureaucracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

In Pursuit of Excellence is a speech to college students stating that the main avenue by which we may aspire to excellence is education. A good college seeks to instill in its students the desire for learning and excellence.  It points them toward meaningful goals, raises their sights, and prepares them for a life-long endeavor to realize the best that is in them.

In Pursuit of Excellence

Hans F. Sennholz

Immediatley after his death, Margit von Mises, the widow of Ludwig von Mises, set out to write a book about the man, her husband, the teacher and mentor of so many eminent economists. My Years with Ludwig von Mises (second enlarged edition), tells of life in old Vienna and Geneva, and describes the Mises' escape through France, Spain, and Portugal to the United States. It portrays the master in Vienna, Geneva, and New York, and follows him to Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and many other places where he lectured. The book provides fascinating glimpses of the many distinguished people who were touched by this man.

My Years With Ludwig von Mises

Von Mises, Margít

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