Themes from Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism

In this course, David Gordon examines Ludwig von Mises’s views on the family, social evolution, ethics, Marxism, and interventionism, as well as the calculation argument against socialism. Students who complete the course will gain a good working knowledge of an essential work of the Austrian school.

Readings

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis.

Instructor

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx.  He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of the Mises Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, the International Philosophic Quarterly, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.