Ludwig von Mises

High school (ages 12+)
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Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Ludwig von Mises born?September 29, 1881, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary
2. When did Ludwig von Mises die?October 10, 1973, New York City, USA
3. From the article, write the major work:Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (1949)
4. From the article, write the methodology:Deductive reasoning from the axiom of human action
5. Who was Ludwig von Mises?Ludwig von Mises was a famous economist from Vienna who wrote about how people make choices and how markets work.
6. What is praxeology?Praxeology is a way of studying economics that starts with the idea that people act to make their lives better, and then looks at what that means for the economy.

Praxeology: The science of human action, a deductive methodology for understanding economic phenomena based on the axiom of purposeful behavior.
Classical Liberalism: A political ideology emphasizing individual liberty, limited government intervention, free markets, and private property rights.
Consumer Sovereignty: The economic concept that consumers' desires and choices ultimately dictate what goods and services are produced.
Economic Calculation Problem: Mises's argument that socialist economies cannot rationally allocate resources due to the absence of market prices.