After he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. Among those included in this volume are:Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940)An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe (1943)Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy (1943)Mexico?s Economic Problems (1943)The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies (1944)A Noninflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction (1944)Ludwig von Mises (1881?1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century.Richard Ebeling is Professor of Economics at Northwood University.