What kind of man was Ludwig
von Mises? As this unique film
shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a
man who never stopped fighting
for freedom: not when the
Nazis burned his books, not
when the Left blackballed him
at universities, not when it
seemed as if statism had won.
With courage and genius, he
fought big government until
the day
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What kind of man was Ludwig
von Mises? As this unique film
shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a
man who never stopped fighting
for freedom: not when the
Nazis burned his books, not
when the Left blackballed him
at universities, not when it
seemed as if statism had won.
With courage and genius, he
fought big government until
the day he died ... in 25
books, hundreds of articles,
and more than 60 years of
teaching.Mises's battles
against Communists, Nazis, and
other socialists, are featured
in this film, as are his ideas
of Liberty. There is also the
old Vienna he loved, the
Bolshevik prime minister he
dissuaded from Communism, and
a cast of villains from Lenin
to Hitler, as well as such
supporters and students as
Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul,
Bettina Greaves, M. Stanton
Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph
Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev.Among
his many accomplishments,
Mises showed that socialism
had to fail, that central
banking causes recessions and
depressions, that the gold
standard is honest money, and
that only laissez-faire
capitalism is fully compatible
with Western civilization.
Mises was the twentieth
century's foremost economist,
and one of its most important
champions of Liberty. Here is
a film that does justice to
this extraordinary man, and to
his equally extraordinary
ideas.

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