This is the critical analysis to which Mises refers in Human Action, 3rd ed . page 488, note 5 (Chicago: Regnery , 1966). It appeared in Nationalökonomie (Geneva, Switzerland: Editions Union, 1940), pp . 439-444. This excerpt has been translated from the German by Bettina Bien Greaves and edited by Percy L. Greaves , Jr .:
This is Mises’s 1927 review of J. M. Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire, Ideas on the Unification of Private and Social Economy (Munich and Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1926), 40 pages, translated for the first time here (by Joseph Stromberg). It originally appeared as Mises, “Das Ende des Laissez-Faire, Ideen zur Verbindung von Privat- und
[Address delivered before the Economics Faculty of New York University at the Faculty Club on November 20, 1940, a few months after Dr. and Mrs. Ludwig von Mises arrived in New Jersey on August 2, 1940, as refugees from war-torn Europe. Reprinted in Planning for Freedom .] Your kind invitation to address you on my contributions to economic theory
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