Some Applications of the Time-Preference Theory
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Even Marx did not contest the fact that private initiative and private ownership of the means of production were indispensable stages in the progress from primitive man’s penury to the more satisfactory conditions of the 19th century, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).
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