Eduard Braun

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The Command Economy in Green Clothing: Britain’s Contracts for Difference and Their Nazi Predecessors

05/14/2026 Mises Wire Eduard Braun

In pursuing the so-called green economy, Great Britain’s Labour Government must resort to socialist planning and totalitarian propaganda.

Capital Theory and Liberty

05/08/2026 Mises Wire Eduard Braun

Marxists have claimed that capital undermines human freedom. Ludwig von Mises, on the other hand, pointed out that capital developed within a free market is essential to personal liberty.

Germany Is Now Officially a Planned Economy

03/05/2026 Power & Market Eduard Braun

Germany’s “social-ecological transformation” is the political program of turning the existing social market economy into what the government calls a “social-ecological market economy.” In practice, this means a planned economy.

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Reply to Dr. Howden on Opportunity Costs

09/09/2016 Eduard Braun

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Howden (2016) dedicates a large part of his response to criticizing my way of dealing with and classifying the concept of opportunity costs in my book (Braun, 2014). I must start by

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