The International Austrian Movement

Austrian economics is perhaps the only school of thought that is truly international (aside from Marxism, of course). Just recently, an economist from Germany based at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, was hired by a university in France.

Congratulations to Jörg Guido Hülsmann, who departs in a few weeks for the University of Angers. Founded as the Catholic University of the West before being nationalized by the French state in the crazed anti-clericalism of the 19th century, it still has a religious character. So it is appropriate that Guido is working, among a number of other projects, on a book reconciling Catholicism and libertarianism.

He has just finished a 1,000-page biography of Mises. I can’t say too much about it just now, except that it will revolutionize not only the Austrian School but the intellectual history of the 20th century. And by the way, if you think you know Mises, you don’t.

Guido, who has been with the Institute for six years, will continue to teach in our programs. He’s a star, and it may not be too long before the whole scholarly world knows it.

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10:11 am on July 29, 2004