The Free Market 26, no. 10 (October 2005) In the first line of his book, Planning for Freedom, Ludwig von Mises, the famed Austrian economist, observed “Planning is socialism.” I will admit that my...
When the state passes a law, even if trivial, it backs that law by the threat of force. Sometimes it actually uses it. Ray Haynes explains.
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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