Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Economist.

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (German: [ˈluːtvɪç fɔn ˈmiːzəs]; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was a philosopher Austrian School economist sociologist and classical liberal. He became a prominent figure in the Austrian School of economic thought and is best known for his work on praxeology a study of human choice and action. Fearing a Nazi takeover of Switzerland where he was living at the time Mises immigrated to the United States in 1940.

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birth date

1881-09-29

birth place

Austria-Hungary, Lviv, Ukraine, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

death date

1973-10-10

death place

New York City, United States, New York

influenced

Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Peter Schiff, Walter Block, Ron Paul, Alfred Schütz, Lew Rockwell, Ralph Raico, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Joseph Salerno, Mark Spitznagel, William H. Peterson, Henry Hazlitt, Israel Kirzner, George Reisman, Hans Sennholz, Benjamin Anderson, Thomas Woods

influenced by

Carl Menger, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot Baron de Laune, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk

institution

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Vienna, New York University

LCCN Id

n/79/097308