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Back to SearchThe Hampered Market Economy
Mises examines the doctrine of a “hampered” or regulated market as a distinct third system and answers Schmalenbach’s thesis that free enterprise was…
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Interventionism
The central essay: interventionism as a supposed economic system, the real nature of intervention, and how price ceilings, minimum wages, and similar…
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Preface
Mises’s 1929 preface, written in Vienna for the original German edition, presenting the essays as a sustained critique of interventionism, then the r…
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Introduction
Hans F. Sennholz, the translator, lays out Mises’s target—the belief in a “third system” of a hampered market economy standing between capitalism and…
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Foreword
Margit von Mises introduces the collection, recalling that these essays date from the 1920s and noting that the final essay was added to the later Ge…
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The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict
Episode 185
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton examines the “dupes of war”—citizens trained by government, schools, and historians to accept fa…
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Praxeology within a Physics of the Social Sciences
Austrian economics does not share the same methodology as we see in the economics mainstream. The Austrian emphasis on praxeology provides a better e…
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Three Myths of American Healthcare
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Ryan McMaken dismantles three persistent myths of American healthcare before tracing the origins of social insurance to Bismarck's deliberate scheme …
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The Depression of 1784: Revolutionary Inflation and Post-Revolution Depression
Intervention begets intervention. This was the case following the American Revolution, as the consequences of inflation, credit expansion, and wartim…
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How Adam Smith Helped Create Modern Unionism
While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantage…
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