Ludwig Heinrich von Mises was born in Lemberg (now Lviv, in the Ukraine), where his father was a railway engineer. Ludwig Mises studied and later taught economics at the University of Vienna (1913-1938). He was known for his work on monetary issues. Ludwig Mises opposed central planning and governmental intervention in economics, being a true representative of the Austrian economic school of thought. His public functions as consultant of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and founding the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research (1926) took place during the same period. In 1934 he left Austria and settled in Geneva where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940. Ludwig von Mises left Europe for the USA, where he taught in New York, from 1940. Together with other economists he founded the Mont Pelerin Society, an international association of free market economists and sociologists. Mises’ works include: Human Action, Socialism, Liberalism, The Theory of Money and Credit, Bureaucracy, and The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.