Remarks About the Popular Interpretation of the "Industrial Revolution"

Remarks About the Popular Interpretation of the “Industrial Revolution”

08/06/2010

Indeed, deplorable conditions existed, but one must not blame the factory owners, who did all they could to eradicate them. These evils were caused by the economic order of the precapitalistic era — the “good old days”, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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