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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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