The French version of Mises’s The Disintegration of the International Division of Labour.
Ludwig von Mises was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian school of economic thought, a prodigious originator in economic theory, and a prolific author. Mises’s writings and lectures encompassed economic theory, history, epistemology, government, and political philosophy. His contributions to economic theory include important clarifications on the quantity theory of money, the theory of the trade cycle, the integration of monetary theory with economic theory in general, and a demonstration that socialism must fail because it cannot solve the problem of economic calculation. Mises was the first scholar to recognize that economics is part of a larger science in human action, a science that he called praxeology.
To avoid being blamed for the nefarious consequences of inflation, the government and its henchmen resort to a semantic trick. They try to change the meaning of the terms. They call “inflation” the inevitable consequence of inflation, namely, the rise in prices.
The essay added later to the collection: a critique of proposals to nationalize banking and credit, weighing bureaucratic against profit management and warning of credit overexpansion and immobilization.
How German “anti-Marxism,” including national (anti-Marxian) socialism, absorbed the very Marxian ideas it claimed to oppose, with Werner Sombart as the case study of a thinker Marxist and anti-Marxist by turns.
Les Illusions du Protectionnisme et de l`Autarcie, Librairie de Médicis (Paris, 1938). Spanish translation: “Las Illusiones del Proteccionismo y de la Autarquía.” Investigación Económica .(Escuela Nacional de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). 2:1 (First Quarter, 1942). 28-54. Reprinted in Money, Method, and the Market Process. “The Disintegration of the International Division of Labour.” The World Crisis by the Professors of the Graduate Institute of International Studies. London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green.(1938) pp. 245-74.
