This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises's honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard's reconstruction of utility and welfare theory.

This volume contains:

• Dedication--Ludwig von Mises
• Part One: Grato Animo Beneficiique Memores
  • The Intransigence of Ludwig von Mises (Jacques Rueff)
  • On Reading von Mises (William E. Rappard)
  • Two of Ludwig von Mises' Most Important Works
• Part Two: On the Nature of Man and Government
  • Order vs. Organization (Bertrand de Jouvenal)
  • On Democracy (Hans F. Sennholz)
  • The Road to Totalitarianism (Henry Hazlitt)
  • The Greatest Economic Charity (F.A. Harper)
• Part Three: On Scientific Method
  • The Place of Economics Among the Sciences (Wilhelm Röpke)
  • On Methodology in Economics (Faustino Ballvé)
  • Some Considerations on Economic Laws (Carlo Antoni)
  • Averages and Aggregates in Economics (Louis M. Spadaro)
  • The Inferiority Complex of the Social Sciences (Fritz Machlup)
• Part Four: The Economics of Free Enterprise
  • The Market Economy and the Distribution of Wealth (L.M. Lachmann)
  • Unearned Riches (Leonard E. Read)
  • The Yield from Money Held (W.H. Hutt)
  • The Accelerator and Say's Law (William H. Peterson)
  • Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economic (Murray N. Rothbard)
• Part Five: The Hampered Market Economy
  • Progressive Taxation Reconsidered (F.A. Hayek)
  • Is Further Intervention a Cure for Prior Intervention? (Percy L. Greaves, Jr.)
• Part Six: On Socialism
  • French Socialism (Louis Baudin)

Publication Information

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1956