The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESFree 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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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