Edited by Richard M. Ebeling

This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement," have not been published previously. Others, like "The Idea of Liberty Is Western," have already made their mark on intellectual history.

Brought together by Mrs. Mises after her husband's death, and edited with an introduction by Richard Ebeling, this volume fills an important gap in providing an overview of Ludwig von Mises's best academic work. For that reason, this book is already widely used in graduate courses and seminars on the resurgence of the Austrian School.

These are the 21 essays included in Money, Method, and the Market Process:

• Social Science and Natural Science
• The Treatment of "Irrationality"
• Epistemological Relativism in the Sciences of Human Action
• The Position of Money among Economic Goods
• The Non-Neutrality of Money
• The Suitability of Methods of Ascertaining Changes in Purchasing Power for the Guidance of International Currency and Banking Policy
• The Great German Inflation
• Senior's Lectures on Monetary Problems
• The Disintegration of the International Division of Labor
• Autarky and its Consequences
• Economic Nationalism and Peaceful Economic Cooperation
• The Plight of Underdeveloped Nations
• Capitalism versus Socialism
• On Equality and Inequality
• The Clash of Group Interests
• A Hundred Years of Marxian Socialism
• Observations on the Russian Reform Movement
• Observations on the Cooperative Movement
• Some Observations on Current Economic Methods and Policies
• The Role of Doctrines in Human History
• The Idea of Liberty is Western

Publication Information

Selected by Margit von Mises and edited with an introduction by Richard M. Ebeling. Auburn, Ala: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.