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| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Planned Chaos Ludwig Von Mises, 2014-09-29 This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title comes from Mises's description of the reality of central planning and socialism, whether of the national variety (Nazism) or the international variety (communism). Rather than create an orderly society, the attempt to central plan has precisely the opposite effect. By short-circuiting the price mechanism and forcing people into economic lives contrary to their own chosing, central planning destroys the capital base and creates economic randomness that eventually ends in killing prosperity. This important work was written decades after Mises's original essay on economic calculation and includes the broadest and boldest attack on all forms of state control. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis Ludwig von Mises, 2016-11-24 Socialism is the watchword and the catchword of our day. The socialist idea dominates the modem spirit. The masses approve of it. It expresses the thoughts and feelings of all; it has set its seal upon our time. When history comes to tell our story it will write above the chapter “The Epoch of Socialism.” As yet, it is true, Socialism has not created a society which can be said to represent its ideal. But for more than a generation the policies of civilized nations have been directed towards nothing less than a gradual realization of Socialism.17 In recent years the movement has grown noticeably in vigour and tenacity. Some nations have sought to achieve Socialism, in its fullest sense, at a single stroke. Before our eyes Russian Bolshevism has already accomplished something which, whatever we believe to be its significance, must by the very magnitude of its design be regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements known to world history. Elsewhere no one has yet achieved so much. But with other peoples only the inner contradictions of Socialism itself and the fact that it cannot be completely realized have frustrated socialist triumph. They also have gone as far as they could under the given circumstances. Opposition in principle to Socialism there is none. Today no influential party would dare openly to advocate Private Property in the Means of Production. The word “Capitalism” expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. In seeking to combat Socialism from the standpoint of their special class interest these opponents—the parties which particularly call themselves “bourgeois” or “peasant”—admit indirectly the validity of all the essentials of socialist thought. For if it is only possible to argue against the socialist programme that it endangers the particular interests of one part of humanity, one has really affirmed Socialism. If one complains that the system of economic and social organization which is based on private property in the means of production does not sufficiently consider the interests of the community, that it serves only the purposes of single strata, and that it limits productivity; and if therefore one demands with the supporters of the various “social-political” and “social-reform” movements, state interference in all fields of economic life, then one has fundamentally accepted the principle of the socialist programme. Or again, if one can only argue against socialism that the imperfections of human nature make its realization impossible, or that it is inexpedient under existing economic conditions to proceed at once to socialization, then one merely confesses that one has capitulated to socialist ideas. The nationalist, too, affirms socialism, and objects only to its Internationalism. He wishes to combine Socialism with the ideas of Imperialism and the struggle against foreign nations. He is a national, not an international socialist; but he, also, approves of the essential principles of Socialism. |
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| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth Ludwig Von Mises, 1990 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Socialist Economic Systems Steven Rosefielde, 2023-06-29 Bernie Sanders’ socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China’s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism’s promises and performance during 1820–2022, identifies a feasible path forward and provides a rigorous analytic framework for the comparison of economic systems. The book opens by surveying pre-industrial utopias from Plato to Thomas More, and libertarian communal designs for superior living. It plumbs all aspects of the revolutionary and democratic socialist political movements that emerged after 1870 and considers the comparative economic, political and social performance of the USSR and others from the Bolshevik Revolution onwards. The book also provides case studies for all revolutionary Marxist–Leninist regimes, and supplementary discussions of Mondragon cooperatives, Israeli kibbutzim, Nordic corporatism and European democratic socialism. It investigates the theoretical and practical complexities of command-planning, reform communism, market communism, worker economic management and egalitarianism. It examines communism as an engine of economic growth, and a mechanism for improving people’s quality of existence, including living standards, labor self-governance, egalitarianism, social justice, and prevention of crimes against humanity before addressing the perennial question of what needs to be done next. A suggested path forward is elaborated drawing lessons from the warts-and-all historical performance of socialist economies during 1917–2022 and failed socialist prophesy. The evidence indicates that the key to 21st-century socialism success lies in empowering workers of all descriptions to govern democratically for their mutual protection and welfare without the extraneous imposition of priorities imposed by other movements. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in socialism, political economy, comparative economic systems, and political and social history. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Red Plenty Francis Spufford, 2012-02-14 Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous. —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Economics for Real People Gene Callahan, 2002 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Quotable Mises, The , 2005 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Interventionism Ludwig Von Mises, 2011 Originally published in 1998 by Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism Jörg Guido Hülsmann, 2007 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market Murray N. Rothbard, 2012-10-23 The era of modern economics emerged with the publication of Carl Menger?s seminal work, Principles of Economics, in 1871. In this slim book, Menger set forth the correct approach to theoretical research in economics and elaborated some of its immediate implications. In particular, Menger sought to identify the causal laws determining the prices that he observed being paid daily in actual markets.4 His stated goal was to formulate a realistic price theory that would provide an integrated explanation of the formation of market phenomena valid for all times and places.5 Menger?s investigations led him to the discovery that all market prices, wage rates, rents, and interest rates could ultimately be traced back to the choices and actions of consumers striving to satisfy their most important wants by ?economizing? scarce means or ?economic goods.? Thus, for Menger, all prices, rents, wage, and interest rates were the outcome of the value judgments of individual consumers who chose between concrete units of different goods according to their subjective values or ?marginal utilities? to use the term coined by his student Friedrich Wieser. With this insight was born modern economics. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Planning for Freedom Ludwig von Mises, 2013-10 This is a new release of the original 1962 edition. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions , |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Economic Controversies Murray N. Rothbard, 2011 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Value of a Whale Adrienne Buller, 2022-07-26 Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course for a catastrophic 3°C of warming. What's holding us back? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the ‘solutions’ being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. The book examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, The Value of a Whale asks us – in the face of crisis – what we really value. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto Murray Newton Rothbard, 1978 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Utopia of Rules David Graeber, 2015-02-24 From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Economics in One Lesson Henry Hazlitt, 2010-08-11 Over a million copies sold! A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, this classic guide to the basics of economic theory defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. “A magnificent job of theoretical exposition.”—Ayn Rand Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than fifty years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong—and strongly reasoned—anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Bureaucracy Ludwig Von Mises, 1994 Publisher's note on present edition dated September, 1996. Has index. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Market Theory and the Price System Israel Mayer Kirzner, 2007 Israel Kirzner's outstanding book on price theory is back in print. It is been very difficult to obtain it for decades, even though it is surely the best textbook on Austrian price theory ever written. The prose is crystal clear and the organization exceptional. He takes the reader through the foundations of individual action, exchange, utility, demand and supply, production, and the market process itself. Had it been in print, it would have schooled generations in Austrian price theory, and it is surely useful in the classroom today, or for general reading. Not a collection of essays, it is an integrated presentation from top to bottom, written early in Kirzner's post-doctoral career. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles Jesús Huerta de Soto, 2006 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School Ralph Raico, 2012 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Alienation and the Soviet Economy Paul Craig Roberts, 1971 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Anti-capitalistic Mentality Ludwig Von Mises, 1972 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Epistemological Problems of Economics Ludwig Von Mises, 2002 Collection of essays on economic theory. Most of the essays originally appeared in the late 1920s in German journals devoted to the social sciences, with the original German language collection being issued in 1933. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Way to Will-power Henry Hazlitt, 1922 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Praxeology and Understanding George A. Selgin, 1990 In Praxeology and Understanding, George Selgin argues that what Mises called praxeology is ultimately rooted in a conception of economic logic that is undeniable and not subject to the claims of those who would extend the idea of subjectivism beyond its appropriate bounds. Contrary to the claims of hypersubjectivists, some things can be known to be apodictically certain. This monograph was originally written in 1988, in the thick of a Methodenstreit within the Austrian School that concerned the methodological claims of the so-called radical subjectivists who took the notion so far as to deny the very validity of universal economic laws. By asserting that the universe is kaleidic and that the future is radically unknowable, some thinkers, Selgin argues, are departing from the Misesian tradition, and have actually but inadvertently attacked the very core of economics as a science. The root of the subjectivist extension can be found in the works of Ludwig Lachmann, but they extended to the hermeneuticians of the 1980s. They posited a research program that could lead to nothing beneficial for the Austrian School. Selgin argues that instead of such dead ends and methodological black holes, Austrians need to embrace the scientific deductivism of the classical and Austrian Schools and keep subjectivism within its proper place as a tool of explanation of market phenomena. This essay is powerfully written and beautifully argued. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: This Bread Is Mine Robert Lefevre, 2013-10 This is a new release of the original 1960 edition. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Anti-Piketty Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, Emmanuel Martin, 2017-03-01 Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the notions of inequality, growth, wealth, and capital. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Efficiency and Russia's Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000 and Beyond Steven Rosefielde, 1998 Steven Rosenfielde presents a rigorous examination of Russia's economic recovery prospects and productive capacity. Taking a theoretical and econometric approach the book presents a conclusion which stands in stark contrast to the theory that liberalization, democratization and privatization have placed Russia on the threshold of rapid recovery and modernization. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Works of Ludwig Von Mises Bettina Bien Greaves, 1962 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises Mary Sennholz, 1956 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Toward Liberty Friedrich August Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Institute for Humane Studies, Inc, 1973 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Man, Economy, and State Murray N. Rothbard, Robert P. Murphy, 2006 The prose of Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard is as clear as a bell. But its sheer size (1441 pages!) is intimidating. After all, Rothbard systematically covers the whole of economic science. Fortunately, the young and brilliant economist Robert Murphy has come to the rescue! In writing the Study Guide to Man, Economy, and State, he had his students in mind. He wanted to design a great teaching tool, one that would reach students the same way a private tutor would. He wanted to help Rothbard's magnum opus have permanent impact on their thinking. He accomplished his goal! The guide provides a roadmap to this massive book, complete with summaries, technical notes, annotations of key contributions, and study questions. He puts it all into a manageable size, with 12 pages per chapter of the Scholar's Edition (which includes both Man, Economy, and State and Power and Market). To write a guide of this sort is harder than it looks. Murphy first had to master the material in every way, enough so that he could write short, 3-page summaries of the chapters. He then used his advanced training to discuss and elaborate some of the more technically difficult sections of the book. And because Rothbard does not often explain what is innovative in his own theories, Murphy draws attention to the unique contributions to economic science found herein. He tops it off with a series of thought-provoking questions that deal with the core lessons of each chapter. The study guide comes spiral bound for ease of use. Murphy spent more than a year writing and editing this guide. As you will see, he is an excellent teacher and he set out to do this in a way that appeals to students of all ages. One of the goals of the Mises Institute has long been to make this book accessible to everyone, particularly people who are studying economics, and especially those who are interested in Austrian economics. This powerful guide makes the text open up as never before. It is ideal for classroom use, and also for private study. Another use didn't occur to the author until after he finished it: he uses it to prepare lectures for class! He says now that he doesn't know how he taught without it before. Murphy sought to write a teaching guide but he ended up writing a manual to Man, Economy, and State that will quickly become a staple of the literature. Would that every book of this size had such a guide (and, yes, he has now completed one for Human Action too!), and would that every guide were as clear and useful as this one. Professor Murphy is an extraordinary talent with a great gift for helping students understand economics. Now he can be your teacher too. The chapters of this guide match the twelve of Man, Economy, and State and the seven of Power and Market; appendices are handled within each chapter. A typical chapter begins with a one-page summary, followed by a detailed outline, contributions or observations from the author, technical details, and finally, ten study guide questions. I strongly urge all those who take Austrian economics seriously to read (at least large portions of) Rothbard’s treatise; I would go so far as to say that a modern academic cannot really call him or herself an Austrian economist without doing so. For those who may be intimidated or discouraged by the massive volume, I hope that this study guide will at least “chart the territory” and allow them to begin in those topics that most interest them. At that point, I suspect, Rothbard’s spell will overtake them and they will be compelled to read all 1,441 pages. -Robert Murphy, from the Introduction |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Commanding Heights Daniel Yergin, 1998 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: America's Great Depression Murray N Rothbard, 2022-11-18 This book is an analysis of the causes of the Great Depression of 1929. The author concludes that the Depression was caused not by laissez-faire capitalism, but by government intervention in the economy. The author argues that the Hoover administration violated the tradition of previous American depressions by intervening in an unprecedented way and that the result was a disastrous prolongation of unemployment and depression so that a typical business cycle became a lingering disease. |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society Trygve J. B. Hoff, 1980 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Rivalry and Central Planning Don Lavoie, 2015 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: The Catalogue of Prof. Schumpeter Library Hitotsubashi Daigaku. Toshokan, Hitotsubashi University Library, 1962 |
| planned chaos ludwig von mises sparknotes: Business Tides Henry Hazlitt, 2011-09-28 A lone voice of economic sanity in the United States after World War II was Henry Hazlitt, who had moved in 1946 from the New York Times editorial page to Newsweek magazine, where he wrote until the late 1960s. He wrote a column every week on the most important economic topic being discussed in politics and the media. Each column was about 800 words, and each taught a lesson using logic and evidence. His column was always a wonderful annoyance to the political class and a ray of bright light for freedom lovers everywhere. |
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