The Austrian libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises’s sweeping critique of all forms of statism and economic planning, building on his celebrated 1920 article on the ‘economic calculation problem’ and broadening ‘his early critique of socialism to include fascism and Nazism and the conditions that led to their rise. It is in this work that he isolates statism in general, and dictatorship in particular, as the ultimate enemies of freedom, regardless of whether that statism is from the left or the right’ (Foundation for Economic Education).