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Ludwig von Mises

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Profession
Economist
Died
Oct 10, 1973
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
Ukraine
About
A prominent twentieth-century economic and political philosopher, he is remembered for his association with the Austrian School and for his influence upon the American libertarian movement. His most well known work, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, was published in 1949.
Family
The son of Jewish parents Adele Landau and Arthur Edler von Mises, he spent his youth in Galicia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Ukraine), and later relocated to the United States with his wife Margit Herzfeld Sereny. His stepdaughter Gitta Sereny became a well-known journalist and author, and his brother Richard von Mises had a prominent career as a mathematician.

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