Dr. Richard Ebeling is president of the Foundation of Economic Education. He was Ludwig von Mises professor of Economics at Hillsdale College, Michigan and vice president of academic affairs in The Future of Freedom Foundation. Dr. Ebeling holds a Ph.D. from Middlesex University in London, an M.A. from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in Economics from California State University. He and his wife, Anna Ebeling discovered the lost papers of Ludwig von Mises and edited the papers Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, published by Liberty Fund.
Mission to Moscow: Discovering the "Lost Papers" of Ludwig von Mises and Their Significance Anna and Richard Ebeling
New Media Auditorium Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala, March 3rd 2003
A New Media - UFM production. Guatemala, March 2003. Camera: Rebeca Zuñiga; digital editing: Jose Cordón; index: Joseph Cole; publication: Pedro David España
Content
Initial credits
Richard Ebeling: presentation and introduction
The importance of Mises as an economist in the 21st century
His career
His contributions
How the Mises lost papers were found
Mises' Vienna apartment
The Moscow archives
Anna Ebeling: arriving to Moscow and looking for the Mises files
How they got lost
Getting access to the papers
Getting the photocopied papers out
The publication of the papers
1st volume (not from the Moscow archive): The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction (early 1940s)
2nd volume (from the Moscow archive): Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression (1918-1938)
A passage from his Notes and Recollections (1940)
What the second volume is about
Mises, the chronicler of policies that failed; and Mises, the maker of proposals
3rd volume (coming on 2004): papers written before and during WWI
Mises, the system builder vs. Mises, the practical economist and man of his times
Anna Ebeling: comments on Mises
Credits
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
6 Calle final, zona 10
Edificio de la Escuela de Negocios
Oficina EN-103
Guatemala, Guatemala 01010
Teléfono (+502) 2338-7876
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