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From Mises to Morgenstern: Austrian economics during the ständestaat

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This is a revised translation of “Von Mises zu Morgenstern. Der Austroliberalismus und der Ständestaat,” published in Zeitgeschichte 32 (2005): 323–35. A first version of this paper was written during my Schumpeter fellowship at Harvard University; the hospitality of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and financial support by the Joseph Schumpeter Society and the Austrian Ministry of Education is gratefully acknowledged. I thank Joachim Becker, Fritz Breuss, Harald Hagemann, Reinhard Pirker, N. Joseph Potts, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments and, in particular, Nicola Giocoli and Robert Leonard for making unpublished typescripts available to me. Of course, any remaining errors and omissions are mine. Finally, for permissions to quote from unpublished sources I am very grateful to Dorothy Morgenstern Thomas and Duke University for the papers of Oskar Morgenstern; to Bruce Caldwell, the general editor of the Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, for the papers of Friedrich August Hayek; to the Hoover Institution Archives for the papers of Fritz Machlup (copyright by Stanford University); to Helmut F. Furth for the correspondence of Gottfried Haberler; and to the Mises Estate and Bettina Bien Greaves for the correspondence of Ludwig Mises.

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Klausinger, H. From Mises to Morgenstern: Austrian economics during the ständestaat. Quart J Austrian Econ 9, 25–43 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12113-006-1013-1

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