The Cultural Thought of Ludwig von Mises

Similar or different? A comparison of Austrian and feminist economics

“…Over the last thirty years, several studies have compared the achievements of these schools (Vaughn, 1994;Horwitz, 1995;Waller, 1999;Becchio, 2018), and some attempts have been made to reconcile them. For example, Tucker and Reisenwitz (2014) and Moreno-Casas (2020) identify Mises as a feminist economist (albeit in a different sense from that presented in the previous paragraph or in Table 1). For his 1 The literature sometimes distinguishes between gender economics and feminist economics, where the former term denotes "a form of neoclassical economics applied to gender issues" and the latter "a more politically oriented approach that involves a thorough revision of the neoclassical economics and a more radical and newer economic thinking" (Becchio, 2018, pp.…”

Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality

“…During WWII, Mises (1944) strongly criticized Nazi racial policies and persecutions, although inequality among individuals remained central to his economic theories (see J. A. Tucker & Rockwell, 1991).…”

The debate between the Austrian School of Economics and the cooperative movement. The assumption of

“…While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted" (ibid). Mises thought that Eurocentrism was the proper outlook (see Tucker and Rockwell, 1991). But is this elitism part of the core of Austrian methodology or is it only a part of Mises theory?…”