In the short biography piece “A primer on Mises”, Lew Rockwell states the following:
“Among his duties, he wrote economic analyses of proposed government actions, and he managed almost single-handedly to keep Austria from following Germany into hyperinflation during the early 1920s.”
Now this is very intriguing to me since I had never thought about why Austria managed to avoid this phenomenon, being one of the Central Powers and(presumably) also subject to war reparations.
Does anyone know of any good sources where Mises work during this period is explained in more detail, or the general influence that the Austrian schoold had on Austrian domestic fiscal policy in general in that era? I know Böhm-Bawerk was the finance minister of Austria for a time, and pushed sound money and balanced budgets.