Interventionism

We would do well to study the intellectual, political, social, and economic history that made Mises write with such urgency and passion.

There is 1 percent out there who do live parasitically off the population and exploit the 99 percent. Even today the state is made up of a tiny sliver of the population but is the cause of all the impoverishing wars, inflation, taxes, regimentation, and social conflict.

An increase in the quantity of money doesn't bring any general improvement of conditions.

From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

What the protesters do not realize is that the wealth of the 1 percent provides the standard of living of the 99 percent.

The state furnishes no machinery for arriving at justice.

The proponents of syndicalism suffer most from a total ignorance of economics.

Presented in Vienna, Austria, on 20 September 2011. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.