Mises e Rothbard no Le Monde

Via o Blog de Roderick T. Long.

Os "Austro-libertarian" fazem incursões em França. O Le Monde publico no dia 7 de Outubro um artigo com a incrível história de Mises e como o seu arquivo foi primeiro roubado e escondido por Nazis e depois pelos Soviéticos e mais tarde, após uma grande investigação pessoal, descoberto por um Miseseano que o levou para o Mises Institute. O artigo acaba assim:

"The rediscovery of what may well be the greatest economist of the 20th century has only begun. "

Alguns pontos:

How can he attract so much enthusiasm, so much fervor? And why is he today at the heart of libertarian thought in America, indeed in the world?

"This extraordinary story begins on 15 March 1938, the date that German troops marched in Austria. Or rather on the very eve of the Anschluss: one of the Hitlerite commandos under Himmler’s command had forced open the door of Ludwig von Mises’ apartment in Vienna in order to pack up cases full of books, files, manuscripts, and all the valuable articles which they could collect – except for Mises himself and his wife, who had already fled.
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It is true that Mises had made himself known in academic circles in 1920, through an article that demonstrated the impossibility of a socialist economy’s avoiding total bankruptcy. Thus one might now say that Mises was the very first one to foresee the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Mises’ demonstration certainly could not have been pleasing to the Nazis, who had aspirations to economic planning. What made his case still worse in their eyes was that they sensed, with remarkable acuity, that he was the most authentic heir of the “Austrian School,” founded in the previous century by Karl [spelling sic] Menger and continued by Eugen Böhm-Bawerk. This current of thought had given a scientific foundation to the subjective theory of value. “Value lies in us, not in things,” summarises Mises.
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As an aggravating circumstance, Mises was Jewish, and the fact that his grandfather had been raised to the nobility by Emperor Franz-Josef in 1881, the very day of Ludwig’s birth, evidently changed nothing in the eyes of the Nazis (the Mises Institute’s crest is none other than the Mises family’s coat-of-arms after its ennoblement).

At the moment when the Hitlerites are ransacking his Viennese apartment, Mises and his wife are already in Geneva, trying to begin a new life.
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One of the economists who attends Mises’ seminar is Murray Rothbard. At age 24, this unusually gifted student is working on a popular version of Human Action, thanks to a grant from the Volker Fund. The result will be the monumental Man, Economy, and State, which through its more thoroughgoing investigation of the subjective theory of value will provide the libertarian movement with economic logic and an economic foundation. When Mises dies, in 1973, Rothbard is seen as his spiritual heir. A prolific author and political agitator, in 1982, with the blessing of Mises’ widow and the assistance of Lew Rockwell, a Catholic libertarian and another champion at “fund raising,” he founds the Ludwig von Mises Institute, dedicated to teaching the “Austrian” approach to economics.

In May 1997, a divine surprise: Mises’ papers (some 20,000 items covering the period 1900-1938) are rediscovered, perfectly preserved, in Moscow, in the files brought back from Germany in 1945 by Soviet troops.