Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises
Born	(1881-09-29)29 September 1881 Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine)
Died	10 October 1973(1973-10-10) (aged 92) New York City, New York, USA
School	Austrian School
Main interests	economics, political economy, philosophy of history, epistemology, rationalism, classical liberalism, libertarianism
Notable ideas	praxeology, economic calculation problem, methodological dualism
Influences Frédéric Bastiat, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, Carl Menger, Jean-Baptiste Say, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Max Weber, Friedrich von Wieser
Influenced Maurice Allais, Benjamin Anderson, Peter Bauer, Walter Block, James M. Buchanan, Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, John Hicks, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, William Harold Hutt, Israel Kirzner, Ludwig Lachmann, Oskar Lange, Ron Paul, Ralph Raico, George Reisman, Lionel Robbins, Lew Rockwell, Murray Rothbard, Joseph Salerno, Peter Schiff, Joseph Schumpeter, Alfred Schutz, Hans Sennholz, Henry Calvert Simons, Vernon L. Smith, Jonathan Nebel

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (Galicia, Austro-Hungary, 29 September 1881 – New York City, 10 October 1973) was an Austrian-American economist, philosopher, and classical liberal. He was of Jewish descent and a prominent figure in the Austrian School of economic thought.

Fearing a Nazi take-over of Europe, Mises emigrated to New York in 1940. He published his most famous work Human action in 1949. Mises had a big influence on the libertarian movement that developed in the United States in the mid-20th century. The Mises Caucus is named after him.