[A-List] Academic life of Mises

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About Mises' "prestigious but unsalaried" career as a proffessor of
economics at the University of Vienna, and his salaried career at the
Austrian Chamber of Commerce; (similar to the U.S Department of Commerce).

http://www.mises.org/mises.asp

**Mises was born in 1881 in the Austro-Hungarian city of Lemberg, the son of
a successful engineer. At the age of 19, he entered the University of
Vienna, and received his doctorate at 27.
In the intellectually stimulating atmosphere of the University of Vienna,
the young Mises studied in the tradition of the founder of the Austrian
School, Carl Menger. Mises also attended the seminar of the other giant of
the School, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Along with teaching, Böhm-Bawerk was
finance minister of Austria-Hungary, and he put the School's ideas into
practice by balancing the budget and establishing a gold standard.

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Seen as holding unfashionable and outdated views, he was never to receive
the academic rewards that were his due. For example, Mises's position as
privatdozent at the University of Vienna was prestigious but unsalaried, so
his income from 1909 to 1934 came from his position as economic advisor, and
then chief economic advisor, to the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, similar to
the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Ph.D Candidate, ABD
Department of Political Science
Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
University at Albany, S.U.N.Y.
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
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question and the only solution is to negate the question."
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