MISES (Ludwig von).
Planning for Freedom.
“MISES'S MOST MATURE THINKING ON THE CORE OF THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY”
A collection of essays and addresses by the Austrian libertarian philosopher and economist, all arguing for the expansion of the free market and the reduction of government control.
The title essay, ‘Planning for Freedom’, makes the argument that the ‘choice isn’t between a planned economy and an unplanned one but rather one between government planning and planning by property owners. It was originally delivered as an address given in 1945 before the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Mises had legendarily shocked the audience by contrasting the ‘Bismarck orthodoxy’ and the ‘Jefferson orthodoxy’, and using bad American economists to prove his point’ (Mises Institute).
Together the collection represents Mises’s ‘most mature thinking on the core of the capitalist economy: the price system, calculation, the theory of cost, entrepreneurship, wealth accumulation, and competition. In general, the essays are more accessible than Mises’s Human Action, and cover problems and applications he had not previously covered’ (Mises Institute).
Greaves and McGee, B18.
