和路德维希·冯·米塞斯的遭遇比起来，很多自诩“热爱自由之人”的经历微不足道。米塞斯流离失所，目睹国家杯纳粹占领，自己的书被焚毁，论文被窃，最后被赶出待了六年的避难所。
1940年，米塞斯移居美国。在旅途中，他开始撰写这本回忆录。此书不仅深入记述了米塞斯前三分之二的人生经 历，也成为热爱自由之人在专制暴政时期的道德和精神指引。他用奥地利官员经济顾问的视角描述了自己的时代。他反对国家主义和通货膨胀，试图阻拦欧洲的干预政策。他论及教学和研讨会、腐败的政客和中央银行家，直至遍布学术界和公共领域的集权霸道。在奥地利即将追随德国陷入通胀深渊之际，他力挽狂澜，拯救国家于水火。
愤怒是此书的灵感之源。米塞斯是执着于真理的伟大思想家，他从未放弃在观念领域战斗。对他来说，敌人就是坏的思想；而令他遗憾的，并非过于好斗，而是过于妥协。

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional responses--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders--whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers--had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

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