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Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State

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04/28/1950 Melchior Palyi

The doctrine of the Welfare State is being offered in the United States as a bright and shiny new.invention. It is being accepted by some on the assumption that it is a device with inherent capacity to solve the complicated problems of mankind,-...

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Essays on Freedom and Power

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07/22/1949 Lord Acton

Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton’s most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power. In addition, the reader learns from his love of liberty as the great creative force in...

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The TVA Idea

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06/15/1949 Dean Russell

From the author: The issue of government ownership of the means of production is no longer open to discussion in Russia. That issue was decisively settled by revolution. The issue of government ownership of the means of production is still open...

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The German Question

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05/31/1946 Wilhelm Röpke

The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke is the book that inspired the postwar economic reform in Germany — which Röpke himself did not believe had gone nearly far enough. It came out in 1945 in Switzerland, one year after Mises’s Omnipotent...

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

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07/23/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent...

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As We Go Marching

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06/15/1944 John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn’s classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S...

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2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management.

2.1. Bureaucracy Under Despotic Government

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The first virtue of a government administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. He becomes a bureaucrat.

Introduction to Bureaucracy

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The introduction to Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy. Nobody doubts that bureaucracy is thoroughly bad and that it should not exist in a perfect world.

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