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Merely Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at…
- We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely…
- It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities…
- It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
- Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the…
- The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
- Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they…
- Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not…
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