World History

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America’s Second Crusade

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

03/16/1950 William Henry Chamberlin

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. “Not one...

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The German Question

Tags: Big Government, World History

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

Tags: Big Government, World History

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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6.1. The German Youth Movement

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, World History

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism is a system under which everybody has the chance of acquiring wealth. All roads are open to the smart youngster. But not under the rising tide of bureaucratization.

5.3. The Bureaucrat as a Voter

Tags: Political Theory, World History

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not only a government employee. He is also his own employer.

6.5. The Vanishing of the Critical Sense

Tags: Interventionism, Political Theory, World History

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The capitalist variety of competition is to outdo other people on the market through offering better and cheaper goods. The bureaucratic variety consists in intrigues at the "courts" of those in power.

5.1. The Philosophy of Bureaucratism

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, World History

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals.

5.4. The Bureaucratization of the Mind

Tags: Interventionism, Philosophy and Methodology, Education, World History

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

The Road to Serfdom

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, World History

03/01/1944 Friedrich A. Hayek

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...

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The God in the Machine by Isabel Paterson

God of the Machine

Tags: Legal System, World History

11/06/1943 Isabel Paterson

Paterson’s best known work is her 1943 book The God of the Machine, which at that time was the preeminent individualist manifesto. In Reason, Stephen Cox writes: The God of the Machine remains a classic of individualist thought. But it is not a...

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