HISTORY, SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY 80 88MISES, Ludwig von. The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality. Princeton, 1956. Octavo, original red and black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $25,000 “The Uncontested Dean Of The Austrian School Of Economics” Presentation first edition of Mises’ pointed Cold War critique of attacks on capitalism, inscribed by him to British businessman and libertarian think-tank founder Sir Antony Fisher, “For Mr. Antony Fisher with kindest regards, Ludwig Mises.” With Fisher’s penciled marginal annotations throughout. In The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, published at the height of the Cold War, Ludwig von Mises, “the uncontested dean of the Austrian school of economics” (ANB), furthers his analysis of socialist economic theories and other critiques of laissez-faire capitalism by disclosing “the roots and consequences… of this anti-capitalistic bias” (vi). Recipient Sir Antony George Anson Fisher (1915-88) was a prominent British businessman and libertarian think tank founder. After a visit to the U.S. in aftermath of World War II, he started England’s first battery cage chicken farm, Buxted Chickens, which eventually made him a millionaire. In 1955, he used his fortune to set up the influential Institute of Economic Affairs with Ralph Harris. Encouraged by Mises’ student F.A. Hayek, in 1971 Fisher founded the International Institute for Economic Research. Fisher’s penciled marginalia and underlinings throughout text; old paper clip rust to upper corners of pp. 64-67. Book near-fine; dust jacket with faint abrasion to front panel, fading to spine, very good. Scarce and desirable inscribed and with an appropriately libertarian provenance. “The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm…”
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