Ludwig von Mises
/in Individualists /by Ricky PorcoThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises, in the course of a long and highly productive life, developed an integrated, deductive science of economics based on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act purposively to achieve desired goals. Even though his economic analysis itself was “value-free” — in the sense of being irrelevant to values held by economists — Mises concluded that the only viable economic policy for the human race was a policy of unrestricted laissez-faire, of free markets and the unhampered exercise of the right of private property, with government strictly limited to the defense of person and property within its territorial area.
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Henry Hazlitt
/in Individualists /by Ricky PorcoAuthor of the most popular economics book ever written.
What book taught American supporters of free markets economics? Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993). A brilliant and pithy work first published in 1946, at a time of rampant statism at home and abroad, it taught millions the bad consequences of putting government in charge of economic life. College students across America and the world still use it and learn from it. It may be the most popular economics text ever written.
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Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek
/in Individualists /by Ricky PorcoA claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
F. A. Hayek’s life spanned the twentieth century, and he made his home in some of the great intellectual communities of the period.
Born Friedrich August von Hayek in 1899 to a distinguished family of Viennese intellectuals, Hayek attended the University of Vienna, earning doctorates in 1921 and 1923. Hayek came to the University at age 19 just after World War I, when it was one of the three best places in the world to study economics (the others being Stockholm and Cambridge).
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