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Kirzner defines economics as the reconciliation of conflicting ends given the existence of inescapable scarcity (1960)
Fraser has classified definitions of economics into Type A definitions and Type B definitions. Ty...
Leonard Read on Ludwig von Mises as the economic dictator of the U.S. (1971)
The final question was posed at midnight: “Professor Mises, I agree with you that we are headed f...
Ludwig von Mises argues that the division of labor and human cooperation are the two sides of the same coin and are not antagonistic to each other (1949)
The fundamental social phenomenon is the division of labor and its counterpart human cooperation....
Mises on the State Theory of Money (1912)
Another acatallactic doctrine seeks to explain the value of money by the command of the state. Ac...
Ludwig von Mises argues that monopolies are the direct result of government intervention and not the product of any inherent tendency within the capitalist system (1949)
As has been pointed out already, there is no such tendency toward monopolization. It is a fact th...
Mises on “interventionism” as a third way between the free market and socialism (1930)
Interventionism does not want to abolish private ownership of the means of production but only to...
Mises on wealth creation and stopping the spirit of predatory militarism (1949)
The eminence of the Western nations consisted in the fact that they succeeded better in checking ...
Mises on cosmopolitan cooperation and peace (1927)
The ultimate ideal envisioned by liberalism is the perfect cooperation of all mankind, taking pla...
Mises on liberalism and the battle of ideas (1927)
When liberal ideas began to spread to central and eastern Europe from their homeland in western E...
Ludwig von Mises identifies the source of the disruption of the world monetary order as the failed policies of governments and their central banks (1934)
The people of all countries agree that the present state of monetary affairs is unsatisfactory an...
Mises on the public sector as “tax eaters” who “feast” on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953)
The financial embarrassment of the main European countries is predominantly caused by the bankrup...
Mises on the interconnection between economic and political freedom (1949)
Freedom, as people enjoyed it in the democratic countries of Western civilization in the years of...
Mises states that it is the division of labor which makes man truly “social” or “communal” (1922)
Society is co-operation; it is community in action. To say that Society is an organism, means tha...
Ludwig von Mises shows the inevitability of economic slumps after a period of credit expansion (1951)
This country, and with it most of the Western world, is presently going through a period of infla...
Robert Nisbet on the Shock the Founding Fathers would feel if they could see the current size of the Military Establishment and the National Government (1988)
What would the Framers (of the U.S. Constitution) be most struck by in America today? … Three asp...
Mises on the consumer as the “captain” of the economic ship (1944)
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. They, by their bu...
Mises on how the “boon” of a tariff privilege is soon dissipated (1949)
It is important to realize that what those benefited by these measures (tariffs) consider an adva...
The 11th Day of Christmas: Mises on the gold standard and peace on earth (1934)
It is not only the monetary and credit system that is out of gear, but the whole economic system....
Mises on the gold standard as the symbol of international peace and prosperity (1949)
The gold standard was the world standard of the age of capitalism, increasing welfare, liberty, a...
Ludwig von Mises lays out five fundamental truths of monetary expansion (1949)
Economics recommends neither inflationary nor deflationary policy. It does not urge the governmen...