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.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs 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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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.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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