The Essential von Mises by Murray N. Rothbard

Author:Murray N. Rothbard [Murray N. Rothbard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-93355-041-1
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2009-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

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13 Mises, Notes, p. 59.

14 Craver, “Emigration,” p. 2.

15 After World War II, Mayer was to continue his career of unprincipled opportunism. When the Russians occupied Vienna, they were understandably out to get Mayer, but he pulled out his Communist Party card and assured the Russians that he had long agitated on their behalf. When the Allies replaced the Russians, Mayer was ready with his Social Democrat party card and again escaped unscathed.

16 Mises, Notes, p. 95.

17 Karl Popper remembers of Vienna in the 1920s that “It became impossible for anyone of Jewish origin to become a University teacher.” Fritz Machlup, a distinguished Student and disciple of Mises, who was Jewish, was prevented from receiving his habilitation degree, the equivalent of the second half of a doctorate, which was needed to permit one to teach at the University of Vienna as a privatdozent. This contrasted to the receipt of their habilitations by the three other leading students of Mises, who were not Jewish, Hayek, Haberler and Morgenstern.

Machlup recalls that the backing of one of the three full professors was needed to bring one’s habilitation to a vote. Mayer opposed him because of his all-consuming jealousy of Mises and of Mises’s protégés. Spann and Degenfeld-Schönburg refused to vote for Machlup out of anti-Semitic principle. Craver, “Emigration,” pp. 23–24.

18 Craver, “Emigration,” p. 5.

19 Mises, Notes, p. 38.

20 Keynes’s review is in Economic Journal 24, pp. 417–19. His damaging admission is in his A Treatise on Money (London, 1930), I, p. 199, n. 2. Hayek’s account of this study characteristically misses the arrogance and gall, and treats the episode as merely a learning defect, concluding that “the world might have been saved much suffering if Lord Keynes’s German had been a little better.” The trouble with Keynes was hardly confined to his defective knowledge of German! Hayek, “Tribute to Ludwig von Mises,” in Mises, My Years, p. 219.

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