6.4. The Selection of the Dictator
The alternative to the democratic principle of selection through popular election is the seizure of power by ruthless adventurers.
Big Government
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3.1. The Impractiability of Government All-round Control
The very idea of central planning by the state is self-contradictory.
7.1. Past Failures
Bureaucratization is only a particular feature of socialization. The main matter is: Capitalism or Socialism?
4.4. Unlimited Dependence on the Discretion of Government Bureaus
In the bureaucratic environment the entrepreneur must resort to two means: diplomacy and bribery.
The Road to Serfdom
The description below is written for the Definitive Edition of Road to Serfdom which is sold in the Mises Store and can be previewed here: Google Preview. Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status...
Bureaucracy
Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements, summed up in his sweeping conclusion: The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is...
Collectivist Economic Planning
In 1920, Ludwig von Mises dropped a bombshell on the European economic world with his article called “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” It argued that socialism was impossible as an economic system. It set off two decades of...
The Return to Laisser Faire
From the author: In this book my endeavor will be to do two things for the benefit of students of politics and citizenship. I shall set myself out to discredit Socialism, but that is the least worthy and the least inspiring of my aims. I shall...
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The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically
This is the 1908 book that started it all in the 20th century, the book that kicked off a century of anti-state, pro-property writing. This was the prototype for Nock’s writing, for Chodorov’s work, and even the theoretical edifice that later...
