Individuals believe in free, private enterprise and the creative capacity of individuals to accomplish good for everyone. This philosophy is shared by some of the greatest and deepest thinkers of modern times, from Adam Smith onwards. In examining the lives of great individualists, we find that individualism is an established idea advanced by anti-establishment people. There is always an establishment, and always there is the iconoclastic presence of individualists to point us in a new and better direction.
Ludwig von Mises
One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises, in the course of a long and highly productive life, developed an integrated, deductive science of economics based on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act purposively to achieve desired goals.