Ludwig von Mises belongs to the record of business as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Ludwig von Mises as Austrian-American economist (1881–1973).
Ludwig von Mises was born at Lviv in 1881. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at University of Vienna and Akademisches Gymnasium.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as economist, philosopher and university teacher.
His affiliations include University of Vienna, New York University and Graduate Institute of International Studies.
His name is attached above all to work in praxeology, particularly for studies comparing communism and capitalism. Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
The surviving body of work includes Human Action, a treatise on economics..
His recorded fields of work are economics and philosophy.
His work was formally recognised with the Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Ludwig von Mises died in 1973, aged 92. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Human Action, a treatise on economics.
- Affiliated with University of Vienna, New York University and Graduate Institute of International Studies
- Educated at University of Vienna and Akademisches Gymnasium
- Worked as economist, philosopher and university teacher
