Higher Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

10 Higher quotes by Ludwig von Mises

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Ludwig von Mises distills his economic philosophy into ten tight reflections on reaching higher standards, making complex ideas surprisingly accessible.

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What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per…

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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

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Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands…

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Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is…

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...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to…

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It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They…

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The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of…

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You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;…

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If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other…

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Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest…

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During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims…

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Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages…

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The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

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There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

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In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

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All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave…

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The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

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