Recenzie capitalismul și dușmanii sâi (în engleză)

Introduction

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (September 29, 1881  October 10, 1973) was a notable economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement. He has been called the "uncontested dean of the Austrian School of economics".

Ludwig von Mises was one the last members of the original Austrian school of economics. He earned his doctorate in law and economics from the University of Vienna in 1906. One of his best works, The Theory of Money and Credit, was published in 1912. In that book, which was used as a money and banking textbook for the next two decades, Mises extended Austrian marginal utility theory to money. Money, noted Mises, is demanded for its usefulness in purchasing other goods, rather than for its own sake.

Mises continued as a staunch advocate of freedom and sound (Austrian) economics, and served as the inspiration and mentor for a new generation who led the rekindling of interest in capitalism. Sadly, he never saw this resurgence himself. Ludwig von Mises died in New York City in 1973.

The book The capitalism and its enemies represents the conferences outspoken in 1958 by Mises in the front of hundreds of Argentineans students. He told them about the capitalism, socialism, interventionism, communism, fascism, economics policies and the danger of the dictatorship, but the lesson have been recorded and send to a secretary, whos manuscript typewritten has been found among his documents by his wife who insisted in the publication of this international volume, so the book was published in 1979.

The book The capitalism and its enemies is presented like a corpus which contains six lectures supported in 1958 to Buenos Aires on the theme of the capitalism and the impact of this concept about modern society. In the book von Mises has pointed subjects like history and the evolution of the capitalism, currents and ideas dont agree with this, elements which stand in the way of an efficient economic development and the ways of their counteract .