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Mises wrote and lectured extensively on behalf of classical liberalism. He is best known for his work on praxeology , a study of human choice and action. Mises emigrated from Austria to the United States in Since the midth century, the libertarian movement in the United States has been strongly influenced by Mises' writings. Mises's student Friedrich Hayek viewed Mises as one of the major figures in the revival of liberalism in the post-war era.

Hayek's work "The Transmission of the Ideals of Freedom" pays high tribute to the influence of Mises in the 20th century libertarian movement. Mises' Austrian School was a leading group of economists. Mises has been described as having approximately seventy close students in Austria [4] and the Austrians as the insiders of the Chicago school of economics.

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The family of his father, Arthur Edler von Mises, had been elevated to the Austrian nobility in the 19th century Edler indicates a noble landless family and they had been involved in financing and constructing railroads. In , Mises attended the University of Vienna , [9] becoming influenced by the works of Carl Menger.

Mises' father died in Three years later, Mises was awarded his doctorate from the school of law in