In honor of Valentines Day, here is a touching tribute by Margit von Mises to her husband. To Margit, Ludwig’s dearest quality was not his great wisdom, but his passion for humanity.
Given during an event honoring the republishing of his book Liberalism, Margit’s touching words not only display the love the two had for each other, but serve as a great reminder of just how important her husband’s ideas are. Rather than simply being academic theories meant for scholarly debate, they are vital insights into empowering mankind to generate prosperity and eradicate the hardship of poverty. His words are a guide to making the world a better place for all.
The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. These great thinkers developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics. Visit https://mises.org