No son las personas que elegimos las que están a cargo. Son sólo el rostro humano de la máquina. Si no lo saben antes de las elecciones, lo descubren rápidamente después de las elecciones.
J.B. Say and the French Liberal School absorbed a method of approach that was, implicitly at least, subjectivist and individualist. And herein lies the reason for many modern critics' disparagement of the Liberal School.
"The power to issue money was essential for the finance of the government … in order to give to government access to the tap where it can draw the money it needs by manufacturing it."
Los auténticos liberales alemanes han caído en la oscuridad total. Hoy, las figuras que se celebran como liberales alemanes de principios del siglo XX son hombres que, de hecho, fueron colectivistas y precursores del estado totalitario.
The authentic German liberals have fallen into total obscurity. Today, the figures who are celebrated as early-twentieth century German liberals are men who were, in fact, collectivists and forerunners of the totalitarian state.
Los humanos usan la acción para alcanzar ciertos fines. Pero deben elegir qué acciones tomar. Y la elección también requiere un juicio acerca de la mejor manera de lograr los fines preferidos.
Humans use action to attain certain ends. But they must choose what actions to take. And choice also requires judgment about the best way to achieve the preferred ends.
Mises, unlike the neoliberals, argued that the best way to combat monopolies was to abolish the policies and government institutions that created them in the first place.
