[Excerpted from the Independent Review (Winter 2010). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Colin Hussey, is available for download.]

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It appears some people who consume mises.org everyday or visit via Facebook have an idea in their heads as to what the Institute will offer in the way of articles, what will be blogged about, and what news items might be posted on our Facebook wall. These vocal few have the idea that the Mises Institute should only concern itself with what they consider economics and what they consider libertarian political theory.

With the debate over the federal government’s budget as the hot topic of the day, the proponents of big spending have gone into overdrive with their mantra that Herbert Hoover was a small-government liquidationist. As often as this myth is repeated, it’s important to show that it is wrong: Herbert Hoover was a big-government man who did not trust the free market. Ironically, I can use the evidence provided by some of these progressive writers themselves to demonstrate this point.

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This blog post originally appeared on lewrockwell.com.

It appears that Scott Adams is a fan of Ludwig von Mises, who called socialism “Planned Chaos” – a term that might also be used to describe large corporations that attempt to centrally plan all things within a firm.