Ludwig von Mises : the man and his economics / Israel M. Kirzner.

1. Ludwig von Mises, 1881-1973 -- 2. Ludwig von Mises, Economist -- 3. The Nature of Economic Inquiry -- 4. The Economics of the Market Process -- 5. Monetary Theory, Cycle Theory, and the Rate of Interest -- 6. Mises: Free-Market Economist of the Century -- Postscript: Misesian Economics After Mises.

"Ludwig von Mises was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, and almost certainly the most significant free-market economist. Mises played a major role in the development of the Austrian School of economics, whose exponents - including Nobel laureates like F. A. Hayek, Milton Freidman, and Gary Becker - radically transformed the "dismal science." In this volume, Israel Kirzner follows Mises from his famous Privatseminar in Vienna - which included luminaries such as Hayek and Eric Voegelin - to his reluctant emigration from Geneva and his last years at New York University. Kirzner illuminates the sources and forces behind Mises' intellectual development. In so doing, he provides a useful and understandable overview of the principles of Austrian economics and the laissezfaire economic policies that became associated with it."--BOOK JACKET.

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