What is Ludwig von Mises?
{{Infobox philosopher | name = Ludwig von Mises | school_tradition = [[Austrian School]] | color = firebrick | image = Ludwig von Mises.jpg|300px|Ludwig von Mises | birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|9|29|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Lviv|Lemberg]], [[Galicia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (now Lviv, [[Ukraine]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|10|10|1881|9|29|df=y}} | death_place =[[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[USA]] | relatives = [[Richard von Mises]] (brother)<br>[[Gitta Sereny]] (step-daughter) | main_interests = [[economics]], [[political economy]], [[philosophy of history]], [[epistemology]], [[rationalism]], [[classical liberalism]], [[libertarianism]] | influences = [[Frédéric Bastiat]], [[Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk]], [[Franz Brentano]], [[Edmund Husserl]], [[Carl Menger]], [[Jean-Baptiste Say]], [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot]], [[Max Weber]], [[Friedrich von Wieser]] | influenced = [[Maurice Allais]], [[Benjamin Anderson]], [[Peter Bauer]], [[Walter Block]], [[James M. Buchanan]], [[Milton Friedman]], [[Friedrich von Hayek]], [[Henry Hazlitt]], [[John Hicks]], [[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]], [[William Harold Hutt]], [[Israel Kirzner]], [[Ludwig Lachmann]], [[Oskar Lange]], [[Ron Paul]], [[Ralph Raico]], [[George Reisman]], [[Lionel Robbins]], [[Lew Rockwell]], [[Murray Rothbard]], [[Joseph Salerno]], [[Peter Schiff]], [[Joseph Schumpeter]], [[Alfred Schutz]], [[Hans Sennholz]], [[Henry Calvert Simons]], [[Vernon L. Smith]], Jonathan Nebel | notable_ideas = [[praxeology]], [[economic calculation problem]], methodological dualism }} '''Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises''' ([[Galicia]], [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungary]], 29 September 1881 – [[New York City]], 10 October 1973) was an Austrian-American [[economics|economist]], [[philosopher]], and [[classical liberalism|classical liberal]]. He was of [[Jew]]ish descent and a prominent figure in the [[Austrian School]] of economic thought. Fearing a [[Nazi]] take-over of Europe, Mi