Author:
Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973.
Imprint:Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, c2007.
Descriptionxvi, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally published: Irvington-on-Hudson : Foundation for Economic Education, 1990.
Note:The economic foundations of freedom -- The individual in society -- The elite under capitalism -- The economic role of saving and capital goods -- Luxuries into necessities -- The saver as a voter -- The market and the state -- The outlook for saving and investment -- Inequality of wealth and incomes -- Deception of government intervention -- The agony of the welfare state -- Wage interference by government -- Unemployment and the height of wage rates -- Wage earners and employers -- Full employment and monetary policy -- Gold versus paper -- An unworkable fiscal policy -- Socialism and the thrifty householder -- Inflation must end in a slump -- The plight of business forecasting -- Why read Adam Smith today? -- The Marxian theory of wage rates -- The Soviet system's economic failure -- On some atavistic economic ideas -- Capital and interest : Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and the discriminating reader -- The symptomatic Keynes -- Professor Hutt on Keynesianism -- The trade cycle -- How can Europe survive? -- The economic point of view -- Liberty and its antithesis -- Man, economy, and state : a new treatise on economics -- Understanding the dollar crisis -- The secret of American prosperity -- A dangerous recommendation for high school economics -- Foreign spokesmen for freedom -- Freedom has made a comeback -- The objectives of economic education -- On current monetary problems -- On the international monetary problem -- Small and big business -- Economics as a bridge for interhuman understanding -- Economic freedom in the present-day world.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
