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This essay offers a review of von Mises' classic Nation, State and Economy(1919). It focuses specifically on the contexts of liberty, the issue of language and nation.

Addresses the theory of capital and interest of Eucken. Explains how
Eucken works out the temporal aspects of the economic process in
different monetary systems, market structures and economic systems. The
theory is critically evaluated. Eucken made essential contributions to
the theory of capital and interest (ranking alongside the works of
Böhm‐Bawerk, Wicksell, Cassel, Fisher, Allais, Hirschleifer and a few
other economists). The profession would benefit from closer acquaintance
with his ideas.

Henry George has been widely pigeonholed and dismissed as a singletaxer. Actually, he was a profound and original economist. He independently arrived at several of the most characteristic insights of the 'Austrian' School, which is enjoying a revival nowadays. Yet George scorned the Austrians of his time, and their present-day successors show scant appreciation of his work. An apparent lapse in intellectual communication calls for repair.