The Mises Institute will have a conference in Vienna this September. Vienna — the capital of Austria — has been home to perhaps more truly creative people than other major cities in the world. I looked up just a few of them: Beethoven, Alfred Adler, Johann Strauss (I and II), Freud, Konrad Lorenz, Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler, Mozart, Arnold Schönberg, Schubert, Haydn, Viktor Frankl, Leopold Kohr, Max Weber, Paul Feyerabend, Ludwig Boltzmann, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, Bruno Walter, Franz Werfel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrodinger and, of particular interest to devotees of the Austrian school of economics: von Mises, Hayek,  Böhm-Bawerk, … Continue reading The Creativity of Vienna