The life and work of Ludwig von Mises is marked by the appearances of large treatises, on topics from money to methodology. But along the way, he also wrote many shorter articles and essays. The essays collected in this volume are from the interwar period, when Mises was working for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. They concern monetary policy, fiscal policy, the boom and bust cycle, trade, economic calculation, socialism, and the history of ideas.
Some of the essays have never before appeared in print, and only surfaced with the discovery of Mises's personal papers, which had landed in Moscow after World War II. This volume is beautifully produced and printed, with outstanding editorial work by Richard Ebeling. A special bonus is a Soviet-sponsored attack on Mises, appearing in a Soviet journal, and published here for the first time.
Contents of this volume include:
- Part I: Monetary Disorder, Inflation, and Interventionist State (1918-32)
- The Quantity Theory
- On the Currency Question
- Remarks Concerning the Establishment of a Ukrainian Note-Issuing Bank
- The Austrian Currency Problem Prior to the Peace Conference
- On the Actions to Be Taken in the Face of Progressive Currency Depreciation
- The Reentry of German-Austria into the German Reich and the Currency Question
- Foreign-Exchange Control Must Be Abolished
- Direct Taxation in City and Country
- Vienna's Political Relationship with the Provinces in Light of Economics
- Viennese Industry and the Tax on Luxury Goods
- A Serious Decline in the Value of the Currency
- The Abolition of Money in Russia
- Inflation and the Shortage of Money: Stop the Printing Presses
- The Return to the Gold Standard
- Restoring Europe's State Finances
- Changes in American Economic Policy
- Commercial and Bureaucratic Business Management
- Part II: The Political Economy of the Great Depression (1931-36)
- The Economic Crisis and Capitalism
- The Gold Standard and Its Opponents
- The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism
- Interventionism as the Cause of the Economic Crisis: A Debate Between Otto Conrad and Ludwig Mises
- Planned Economy and Socialism
- The Return to Freedom of Exchange
- Two Memoranda on the Problems of Monetary Stabilization and Foreign-Exchange Rates
- Part III: Austrian Economic Policy and the Great Depression
- The Balance Sheet of Economic Policies Hostile to Property
- Adjusting Public Expenditures to the Economy's Financial Capacity
- Foreign-Exchange Control and Some of Its Consequences
- An Agenda for Alleviating the Economic Crisis: the Gold Parity, Foreign-Exchange Control, and Budgetary Restraint
- An International Loan as the "Breathing Room" for Austrian Economic Reform
- On Limiting the Adverse Effects of a Proposed Increase in the Value-Added Tax
- Foreign-Exchange Policy
- The Direction of Austrian Financial Policy: A Retrospective and Prospective View
- Part IV: The Political Economy of Irrationalism, Autarky, and Collective Security On the Road to War (1935-38)
- The Cult of the Irrational
- Autarky: The Road to Misery
- The League of Nations and the Raw-Materials Problem
- Guidelines for a New Order of Relationships in the Danube Region
- Part V: Austrian Economics
- The Austrian Economists
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: In Memory of the Tenth Anniversary of His Death
- Part VI: Methodology of the Social Sciences
- The Logical Problem of Economics
- The Logical Character of the Science of Human Action
- Part VII: Economic Calculation Under Socialism
- New Contributions to the Problem of Socialist Economic Calculation
- Recent Writings Concerning the Problem of Economic Calculation Under Socialism
- Economic Calculation Under Commercial Management and Bureaucratic Administration
- Appendix: A Soviet Response to Mises
- "Anti-Marxism": Professor Mises as a Theorist of Fascism (F. Kapelush)
400 page, paperback, ISBN: 9780865973855