Handre van Heerden

The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. The unpaid seminar that built a movement: Mises at NYU. (Article 7b) New York City. Fall, 1950. The course […]

The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. Human Action, the most ambitious work in the history of economics. Article 7/27 Geneva. 1940. Ludwig von Mises hands […]

  The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. Article 6/27 Vienna. 1919. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has just collapsed. The war has been lost. The old order […]

The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. Article 5/27   Vienna. March 1938. The Gestapo enter Ludwig von Mises’s apartment the day German forces march into […]

  The following series of articles presents the Austrian School of economics, 1000 words at a time. Nine economists. Twenty-seven articles. One coherent tradition that the establishment has been trying to ignore for 150 years. They were right. Böhm-Bawerk vs. Hilferding. Article 4/27 Vienna. 1905. Rudolf Hilferding takes his seat in Böhm-Bawerk’s seminar at the University […]