****Includes a Biography of the Author **** In The Anti-capitalistic Mentality, economist Ludwig von Mises explains the causes and effect of the irrational fears and hatred by many intellectuals and others toward the concept of capitalism. This book is the authors most famous works; although it is only five chapters he explains the origins of several profound theories unlike any other in the field of Economics. Mises enumerates and rebuts the economic arguments against the psychological and social objections to capitalism. Written during the twentieth-century socialism, this work provides the student with compelling insights into the human reactions of capitalism.