路德維希·馮·米塞斯（Ludwig yon Mises，1881-1973），奧地利著名經濟學傢，現代自由意誌主義運動的主要發起人，也是促長古典自由主義復蘇的學者，被譽為是“奧地利經濟學派的院長”。他的理論深刻影響瞭之後的經濟學傢如弗裏德裏剋·哈耶剋、穆瑞·羅斯巴德等人。

Written toward the end of Mises's life, his last monograph, "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science", returned to science, economics as a science based on human action. Mises believed that, since the publication of "Human Action", economists and scientists alike had misinterpreted the idea of economics as a science by deeming it epistemological positivism - that they believed that the "science" basis was still more rooted in philosophy than in actual science. In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that determine markets and capital decisions. Since Mises believed these links could be proven scientifically, he concluded that economics, with its basis on that human action, is indeed a science in its own right and not an ideology or a metaphysical doctrine. What has been described as his most passionate work, "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science" brings together all of the themes from Mises's previous work.