路德维希·冯·米塞斯
Ludwig von Mises,1881—1973
奥地利经济学家、哲学家、古典自由主义者,撰写了大量的作品,被视为“奥地利经济学派”的领导人之一。在纳粹占领欧洲的情势下,他于1940年移居美国,并在1949年出版了经济学巨著《人的行为》。他的理论深刻影响了20世纪中期兴起的美国自由至上主义运动。
"How one carries on in the face of unavoidable catastrophe is a matter of temperament. In high school, as was custom, I had chosen a verse by Virgil to be my motto: Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito (“Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it”)."
"I recalled these words during the darkest hours of the war. Again and again I had met with situations from which rational deliberation found no means of escape; but then the unexpected intervened, and with it came salvation. I would not lose courage even now. I wanted to do everything an economist c"
"Upon entering the university, I too was an etatist, through and through. I differed from my fellow students, however, in that I was consciously anti-Marxist. At the time I knew little of Marx’s writings, but was acquainted with most important works of Kautsky. I was an avid reader of the Neue Zeit, "
"I realized only later that party Marxists fell into two categories: those who had never studied Marx at all and were acquainted with only a few of the better known passages from his books, and those who knew of Marx only from textbooks, or, as autodidacts, had read none of the world’s literature bey"
"As a young man, Otto Bauer had made up his mind never to be untrue to his Marxian convictions, never to make concessions to reformism or socialist revisionism, and never to become a Millerand or a Miquel. … He remained faithful to his intentions until the winter of 1918/19. At that time I was succes"
"I knew what was at stake. Bolshevism would lead Vienna to starvation and terror within a few days. Plundering hordes would take to the streets and a second blood bath would destroy what was left of Viennese culture. After discussing these problems with the Bauers over the course of many evenings, I "
"During my first two semesters as a university student I belonged to the Sozialwissenschaftlicher Bildungsverein, an organization serving students interested in the problems of economics and society, … My interest began to slacken during my third semester. I found that too much time could be lost on "