GERMAN

Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Times

By Ludwig von Mises , Leland B. Yeager

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
1983
ISBN
9780814796597, 0-8147-9659-1, 0-8147-9660-5
LCC
HC56 .V6613 1983
Open Library ID
OL3502271M
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
586 kB (600126 bytes)
Series
The Institute for Humane Studies series in economic theory
Pages
258\258
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Published less than a year after Austria's defeat in World War I, ''Nation, State, and Economy'' examines and compares pre-war and post-war economic conditions and explicates Mises' theory that each country's prosperity supports rather than undercuts the prosperity of other countries. Mises' humanitarian recommendations in this book, born from a classical liberal perspective, provide a striking example of how supposedly ''hardnosed'' economic theory, based on the reality of experience, is in fact far more supportive of human flourishing than seemingly more ''idealistic'' but actually impractical social theories. Specifically, Mises warned of the consequences of the punitive terms of the Treaty of Versailles by victors more interested in punishing their defeated enemies than in building a Europe that would be able to meet the challenges of the future. With the benefit of hindsight, we see how different European and world history might have been.

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