Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Ludwig von Mises

First published 1932

Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1932 (2nd edition of Socialism in German)528 pagesISBN 9781610160872Updated May 14, 2010

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Author: Ludwig von Mises
First published: 1932
Format: PDF
Pages: 528
ISBN: 9781610160872
Publisher: Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1932 (2nd edition of Socialism in German)
License: Unverified

The state & socialism

Mises's book Socialism might be the bravest and most revolutionary book of the 20th century. Here is the second edition of the German original, with a beautiful cover and handsomely bound for the serious reader and collection.

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Who wrote Die Gemeinwirtschaft?: Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economics and a prolific author on economic theory, epistemology, and political philosophy. This archive holds 68 of von Mises's works.

What's in it

12 chapters · page numbers are this file's

Vorwort zur zweiten Auflagep. 5
Inhaltsverzeichnisp. 17
Einleitungp. 23
I. Teil: Liberalismus und Sozialismusp. 33
II.Teil: Die Wirtschaft des sozialistischen Gemeinwesensp. 108
III.Teil: Die Lehre von der Unentrinnbarkeit des Sozialismusp. 272
IV. Teil: Der Sozialismus als sittliche Forderungp. 385
V. Teil: Der Destruktionismusp. 445
Schlussausfuehrungenp. 497
Die geschichtliche Bedeutung des modernen Sozialismusp. 497
Anhang: Zur Kritik der Versuche, ein System der Wirtschaftsrechnung fuer das sozialistische Gemeinwesen zu konstruierenp. 502
Sachregisterp. 507

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Ludwig von Mises 1881–1973

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economics and a prolific author on economic theory, epistemology, and political philosophy. Read more about Ludwig von Mises.

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Lectures that discuss Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Recorded talks in this archive that name this book, each linked to the moment it comes up:

10. A Copernican Shift

Jörg Guido Hülsmann · Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

… performance of this line of research in the brilliantly written and inspired work by the Vienna economist Ludwig Mises, Die Gemeinwirtschaft, with full Full command of the most recent scientific achievements, and partly on the basis of new points of …

Hear it at 53:07
12. Winds of War

Jörg Guido Hülsmann · Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

to an English professor about a translation of his book Die Gemeinwirtschaft into English.

Hear it at 54:55
14. The Austrian School’s Critique of Marxism

Eugen-Maria Schulak · The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions

It was expanded substantially two years later and published as the book Die Gemeinwirtschaft Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, 1922, Socialism and Economic and Sociological Analysis.

Hear it at 11:46
18. Friedrich August von Hayek: Grand Seigneur on the Fence

Eugen-Maria Schulak · The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions

… returned from the battlefields of the First World War, Hayek sympathised with socialist ideas, but he was quickly persuaded otherwise by reading Mises's Die Gemeinwirtschaft, 1922, Socialism, which contained the proof that economic calculation was impossible in a socialist community.

Hear it at 3:29