Ludwig von Mises ; selected and edited by Bettina Bien Greaves.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Indianapolis, Ind. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Liberty Fund,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2007]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 289 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Liberty Fund library of the works of Ludwig von Mises series
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Foundation for Economic Education, 1990.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The economic foundations of freedom -- The individual in society -- The elite under capitalism -- The economic role of saving and capital goods -- Luxuries into necessities -- The saver as a voter -- The market and the state -- The outlook for saving and investment -- Inequality of wealth and incomes -- The why of human action -- Deception of government intervention -- The agony of the welfare state -- Wage interference by government -- Unemployment and the height of wage rates -- Wage earners and employers -- Full employment and monetary policy -- Gold versus paper -- Inflation and you -- Inflation -- Inflation : an unworkable fiscal policy -- Socialism, inflation, and the thrifty householder -- Inflation must end in a slump -- The plight of business forecasting -- Why read Adam Smith today? -- The Marxian class conflict doctrine -- The Marxian theory of wage rates -- The Soviet system's economic failure -- On some atavistic economic ideas -- Capital and interest : Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and the discriminating reader -- The symptomatic Keynes -- Professor Hutt on Keynesianism -- The trade cycle -- How can Europe survive? -- The economic point of view -- Liberty and its antithesis -- Man, economy and state : a new treatise on economics -- Understanding the dollar crisis -- The secret of American prosperity -- A dangerous recommendation for high school economics -- Foreign spokesmen for freedom -- Freedom has made a comeback -- The objectives of economic education -- On current monetary problems -- On the international monetary problem -- Small and big business -- Economics as a bridge for interhuman understanding -- Economic freedom in the present-day world.