In Praise of Lard
Are we going to let government's wartime central planners control our lives 70 years after the fact?
Are we going to let government's wartime central planners control our lives 70 years after the fact?
It is likely that with the bailout of Greece we have already passed this point of no return.
"Keynes argues as if the government — or rather, 'forces outside the classical scheme of thought' — could control the volume without affecting any other aspect of the market economy. What sort of powers would government have to wield to be able to exert such a force?"
"The typical ploy of preserving 'standards of quality' meant that competition was hobbled, production and imports limited, and prices kept high."
it is not possible to create something by printing money and redistributing real wealth. All that such policies produce is a further economic impoverishment.
"People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be."
"The only possible solution to the inflation problem is an open opposition to the unions and to the idea that higher money wages are the only means for improving the condition of the masses."
Haiti will remain mired in poverty so long as the majority retains their current hostility to open competition and commerce.
Austrians offer a distinct and valuable approach to basic economic questions, an approach that should be central to research on theoretical and applied topics in economics and business administration.
Mises is one of the greatest men who ever lived for his insights into what he called "human action."