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.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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