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Preface to the Third English EditionAnother source of hope, and also satisfaction, for theauthor of these lines, is the growing number of foreign languagetranslations of this book which have appeared in theshort time since the last edition was published in 2009. To bespecific, during this period, the book has come out in Polish,Czech, Romanian, Dutch, French, German, and Italian. Inshort, at the time of this writing, the book has been translatedinto thirteen different languages and published in ten differentcountries. 3At any rate, whether or not these signs are in the futureconfirmed and our efforts crowned with success, our inalienableresponsibility as university students and economic theoristsis to focus all our efforts on research and the quest for scientifictruth, and thus to pass on to future generations a bodyof knowledge and principles which permits them to further,without limits or hindrance, the advancement of humanityand civilization.Jesús Huerta de SotoMadridApril 21, 2011xix3 The author wishes to express his sincere gratitude to the translatorsand publishers of the following editions: Polish (translation by GrzegorzLuczkiewicz, published in Warsaw by the Instytut Ludwiga von Misesain 2009); Czech and Slovak (translation by M. Fronĕk, A. Tuma, D.Vořechovský, J. Havel, and M. Janda, published in Prague by ASPI-Wolters Kluwer in 2009); Romanian (translation by Diana Costea andTudor Smirna, published in Iaşi by the Universitatea “Alexandru IoanCuza” in 2010); Dutch and Flemish (translation by Tuur Demeester andKoen Swinkels, published in Leuven and the Hague by ACCO in 2011);French (translation by Professor Rosine Létinier, published in Paris byL’Harmattan in 2011); German (translation by Professor Philipp Bagus,published by Lucius & Lucius in 2011); and Italian (translation by GiancarloIanulardo, published by Rubbettino in 2011). The Chinese, Portuguese,Japanese, and Arabic translations have been completed and,God willing, will soon be published. Finally, Serbian, Hungarian, Greek,Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Bulgarian, Hindi and Korean translations arecurrently under preparation.