Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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