Last Friday, an enthusiastic review of Jörg Guido Hülsmann's Mises: The Last Knight of Liberty appeared in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's top newspaper among non-tabloid dailies.
The reviewer has definite reservations about Ludwig von Mises himself, and uses most of the review to criticize the great economist, but he has nothing but praise for Hülsmann's book:
A literary event in this fall's economic literature: the biography of economist Ludwig von Mises sets new standards….
A truly grand Mises biography is now available from the pen of Jörg Guido Hülsmann, a still-young German economist teaching at the University of Angers in France. Hülsmann has researched the subject for some ten years and written an English-language work of more than 1,100 pages with many thousand footnotes, which despite its length does not appear to be overladen, but gives a captivating narrative. Well-written biographies of economists are rare, thus Hülsmann's masterly shot deserves all the more notice.
