Publisher's Synopsis
Ludwig von Mises was a leading exponent of the Austrian School of Economics, which emphasizes individual choice as opposed to group action. His is the underpinnings of the Libertarian Philosophy as expounded upon by Ron Paul, former candidate for President of the United States. Politically, he is regarded as being on the extreme right-wing. For more than half a century, Ludwig von Mises pondered the great issues he discusses in this book. Perhaps the world's foremost economist, he sums up here his views on what man can know in a social science like economics, how this differs from historical learning, metaphysics or the physical sciences and how it may be put to work for the shaping of both ends and means in the Western world. This is the economic philosophy of one of the original untrammeled minds of this century. It is the work of an unmistakable champion of the individual and his need to make his own choices and even mistakes in his search for the good things of life. Ludwig von Mises is internationally known as the leading exponent of the Austrian School of Economics and is the author of a shelf of major books dealing with economic theory and social practice.
