.. FRAGMENTS Vol. XIX JANUARY - MARCH, 1981 No.1 Ludwig von Mises: .Praxeologist Suprem.e By OSCAR B. JOHANNSEN A s the libertarian movement in Ameri~a gains in strength, the name of Ludw1g von Mises crops up increasingly in eco nol!'ic and social liter<>ture . Who was he? He was an economist of the Austrian School, born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lvov in the Russian Ukraine) in 1881, dying 92 years later in New York City in 1973. For most libertarians, the...
