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Re: Contributions

Jon Irenicus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:39:27 GMT

The book Vienna and Chicago is good for some perspective on this. The author makes some rather bad errors (he completely misinterprets Mises' methodological arguments, for instance) but he's great on the economic history.

Re: Contributions

MacFall — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:22:05 GMT

^ What I would have said.

Mises destroyed the economic arguments for socialism so thoroughly that even the leader of the socialist movement in Austria recognized it. And his presentation of the Austrian theory of the business cycle provided the first (and as yet, the best in my belief) explanation of the boom-and-bust cycle. Although you won't get many of the camp followers in "mainstream economics" to admit that, or even to address the arguments he made.

Mises's critics included Keynes (of course), and later Friedman, but I'm not very familiar with what, exactly, their arguments against him were. I think Rand may have objected to some points of Praxeology too.

Re: Contributions

Bostwick — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:14:29 GMT

Economic calculation under socialism and sound banking/Austrian Business Cycle Theory spring to mind.

Contributions

riderreddig — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:40:50 GMT

I am quite new to the site and Mises in general. But i am writing a term paper on his contributions to economics in general and i really can't include all of his publications and writings so i was wondering if you Mises faithful out there could steer me in a more specific direction? Being more specific, what are Mises four or five most notable or important contributions? Who were the most notable critics of Mises? Any info will be great, thank you!