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Painting: Ludwig von Mises argues Otto and Helene Bauer out of a Bolshevik Vienna by lamplight, winter 1918-19

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Critical Episodes in the Life of Mises

Critical Episodes in the Life of Mises is a free lecture series (1 recordings, 0.7 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann.

Hülsmann traces formative episodes in Mises's life, illustrated with historical photographs. This Mises Institute conference talk runs from his Galician childhood through his emigration to America and the founding of the postwar Mises movement.

Cover painting: Ludwig von Mises argues Otto and Helene Bauer out of a Bolshevik Vienna by lamplight, winter 1918-19. See every painting in the art gallery.

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  1. 01

    Critical Episodes in the Life of Mises

    Jörg Guido Hülsmann · 40:37 · 7.0 MB

    Using period photographs, Hülsmann traces turning points in Mises's life from his Lemberg upbringing. It also covers the Nazi seizure of his Vienna files in 1938, later recovered in Moscow, his 1940 emigration, and the Volker Fund support that let a young Rothbard build on Human Action.

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1 recording, 0.7 hours in total.
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Jörg Guido Hülsmann.
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