Perhaps, you could e-mail someone like G Reisman, Hans-Hoppe, Wladimir Kraus?
The Mises ‘about’ pages, list a few names of affiliates who are based in Germany
Good idea. Thank you!
I asked someone who has translated documents in German in other sciences, and showed them the 1888 pdf so they could see it in context.
They suggested a literal “active assets” (as opposed to “inactive assets”). “Productive assets” fits literally as well, but maybe it would be confusing since “production” is the topic being addressed?
Another great idea, thank you. I like “active assets”.
Mr. Hoppe has responded already and also kindly forwarded my request to Mr. Hulsmann, so I’ll see what they have to say and then decide. But I’m strongly in favor of “active assets” right now.
Happy New Year!
How are things?
(Interested what was Professor Hulsmann’s suggestion?)
Any progress on the translation? (I hope I’m not rushing you, by the way.)
Perhaps thoughts on Menger’s thesis?
Sorry for ignoring this thread for so long.
I kinda dropped the project over the holidays, but I’m now on a fixed one-hour-a-day translation schedule, so I hope I will be done in early-mid March. It’s only 50 pages, but it’s professorial German from 150 years ago, so understanding sometimes takes longer than translating. 
Unfortunately, Mr. Hulsmann has not forwarded any suggestions to me, at least I didn’t get anything. And I don’t feel quite ready yet to comment on Menger’s thesis, I first hope to translate it in an understandable fashion before I throw around criticism.
Thanks for the update.
In the meantime, I’ve been brushing up my German in the university (which was initially first-year). Hopefully by the summer, I’ll be able to translate (with the help of electronic dictionaries, of course) a much shorter rare article by Wieser where he introduces opportunity cost. I’ll post that when completed.
That way I can make some contribution back, given the large workload I’ve basically sent your way up till now.
Sounds cool. And sorry again for not being faster myself.
Procrastination is bad, and so is my work ethics. But, after a ridiculously long time, it’s finally done. Well, I’m not really happy with the formatting and some of Menger’s vocables could hardly be translated into the English language, but I neither seem to able to bridge certain language barriers nor to add boomarks in a .pdf document, so that’s that.
Here you are, Sir. I apologize for letting you wait so long.
A few notes regarding the translation:
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Menger uses a word called “Erwerbswirtschaft” that was apparently coined by Max Weber and for which I was unable to find a proper translation. I used “for-profit economy / enterprises / businesses” whenever it popped up, but I’m not sure that’s exactly it; Wikipedia calls it “a form of enterprise that aspires to be profitable by alleviating scarcity through production and trade”. Just so you know.
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Sorry for the inconvenient placing of footnotes, I realized too late that my formatting would be crushed if I didn’t plan for those to be inserted at the bottom of the pages, so there I was, looking for a cheap way out.
If there’s anything unclear with the translation, feel free to ask me here. I owe you some customer service after my delayed delivery. 
Thank you very much for your hard work!
I have just read it and found it very useful for explaing the Menger-Mises view of capital, plus some additonal interesting comments, on topics such as Menger’s views on capital aggregate measurement and so on. Very clear and easy to understand translation.
I went ahead and fitted the translation to the original pagination more-or-less. What do you think?
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=04949916523468017295
In any case, you should certaintly send a copy to someone at the Mises institute, because it seems to me a very good translation and the text is very useful today, I think, for people to read. I hope they publish it.
I noticed you translated the words microeconomics and macroeconomics? It makes perfect sense, but were there already words like that back then, in the sense of German economics vocabulary equivilents (or rather originals, perhaps)? If there were, then that would be very interesting (like Weiser coining “marginal” by way of Wicksteed).
In any case, thanks again for this project!
You are one hard-working man! Read and excellently re-formatted in one day. I love it. If I send it to the Mises Institute, your work will, of course, be duly noted in whatever form you like.
And thanks for your kind words regarding the translation!
As for my usage of “microeconomic” and “macroeconomic”, that was mainly my discretion, but more so for “macroeconomic” than for “microeconomic”; while Menger uses the term Volkswirtschaft, which directly translates into “political economy”, for his macro observations, he employs a more diverse and more “micro-ish” terminology including terms such as Einzelnwirtschaft or Privatwirtschaft when he talks about micro stuff, so it was less of a leap to the contemporary terminology for me. But it still was a somewhat loose translation of mine.
Wow, Sphairon! Thank you for putting all the time and effort into translating this!
Ok, I added in two Ed. notes about the translation of micro and macroeconomics, with a citation of Menger’s 1883 discussion of the impossibility of singular preferences and action by “national actors”. (They don’t affect the pagination.)
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=03552348246984636527
I like how the discussion from there (an appendix to his Methodology work) is applied by Menger to capital in the presently translated work.
Your “editors notes” seem to be incomplete sentences. Also, the Greek in footnote 31 is messed up – the German original has τὸ ἀρχαῖον and κεφαλαῖον, not τό άρχαίου and χεφαλαίσυ; but the accent is wrong on the latter: it should be κεφάλαιον …
The Germans in Greek
are sadly to seek
Not five in five-score
but ninety-five more
All, save only Hermann,
and Hermann’s a German
Sorry for that! Never learned any Greek in my life, so I had to guess the respective letters in the list of additional characters.
Fortunately, this error has now been eliminated. Thanks!