Chapter 5: Production and Entrepreneurship
Part II: Market, Chapter 5: Production and Entrepreneurship
Part II: Market, Chapter 5: Production and Entrepreneurship
Mises in 1926: Public opinion always wants "easy money," that is, low interest rates. But it is the very function of the note-issuing bank to resist such demands, protecting its own solvency.
High time preferences also mean high times in a party atmosphere. When Jamaica embraced socialism many decades ago, it wasn't supposed to come to this.