For a while the postwar ideological climate seemed to be the same as during the war: internationalism, statism, adulation of economic planning and the centralized state, were rampant everywhere.
No hay que olvidar que la escala de valores o de deseos sólo se manifiesta en la realidad de la acción. Estas escalas no tienen una existencia independiente al margen del comportamiento real de los individuos.
One must not forget that the scale of values or wants manifests itself only in the reality of action. These scales have no independent existence apart from the actual behavior of individuals.
For Hayek, "coercion" of course includes the aggressive use of physical violence, but the term unfortunately also includes peaceful and nonaggressive actions as well.
"The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime … and it makes this monopoly as strict as it can. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale."
A partir de falsas teorías sobre el empleo, el dinero y el interés, Keynes ha destilado una teoría fantásticamente errónea del capitalismo y de un paraíso socialista erigido a partir del papel moneda.
Out of false theories of employment, money, and interest, Keynes has distilled a fantastically wrong theory of capitalism and of a socialist paradise erected out of paper money.
La historia nos dice que el gobierno es en el fondo un falsificador y por lo tanto no se puede confiar en él para controlar el dinero. Esto es cierto tanto para los gobiernos autocráticos como para los populares.
History tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money. This is true of both autocratic and popular government.
