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While Mises was of Jewish origin, he was a disciple of Böhm von Bawerk, a Catholic (who in turn was a disciple of Mengel). Mises's book "Socialism" is the strongest, most definite critique of Marxism in the field of economics. It is, however, the first generations that are worth reading: Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, and von Bawker.
I'd say Mises is the beginning of the end, himself and Hayek getting concerned a bit too much with politics instead of economics. By this time the "Austrian" school was already in the USA, subject to Jewish influences (with a lot of Jewish people fleeing Europe at that time). Milton Friedman cannot really be considered to be part of the Austrian school, and Murray Rothbard can hardly be considered an economist at all; he was an activist. Menger and the early members of the school were pure economists, devoted to their science, and refused to go into politics.
Ayn Rand isn't an economist either, and she never pretended to be one. She's a writer and, in my humble opinion, a pretty bad one, whose books only appeal to those who haven't read a proper book before (and I would place Rothbard in this category too; his style is at least more enjoyable, but his ideas are still exalted crap).
So the Austrian School is worth reading when it's Austrian, Catholic and in the late XIX century, early XIX. Afterwards it gets hijacked and becomes American and Jewish / atheist, and it also becomes a political movement instead of an economic theory. Rand was never part of the Austrian school but gets associated with it cause libertarians hold her as her big-nosed waifu.
"Principles of Political Economics" (sometimes just "Principles of Economics") is still a book that anyone interested in economics should read. It's an easy read, well put together, it's quite difficult to find anything objectionable about it and, most importantly, it's still relevant to today's world and economic thought. It hasn't been toppled yet.
If anyone is interested in ti, you can read it here: https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/Principles%20of%20Economics_5.pdf
Feel fee to skip Hayek's introduction, though. He doesn't add anything interesting.