Interventionism an economic analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Greaves, Bettina Bien.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Fund, Inc., c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Author's preface
  • Introduction
  • The problem
  • Capitalism or market economy
  • The socialist economy
  • The capitalist state and the socialist state
  • The interventionist state
  • The plea for moral reform
  • Interference by restriction
  • The nature of restrictive measures
  • Costs and benefits of restrictive measures
  • The restrictive measure as a privilege
  • Restrictive measures as expenditures
  • Interference by price control
  • The alternative: statutory law versus economic law
  • The reaction of the market
  • Minimum wages and unemployment
  • The political consequences of unemployment
  • Inflation and credit expansion
  • Inflation
  • Credit expansion
  • Foreign exchange control
  • The flight of capital and the problem of "hot money"
  • Confiscation and subsidies
  • Confiscation
  • The procurement of funds for public expenditure
  • Unprofitable public works and subsidies
  • "Altruistic" entrepreneurship
  • Corporativism and syndicalism
  • Corporativism
  • Syndicalism
  • War economy
  • War and the market economy
  • Total war and war socialism
  • Market economy and national defense
  • The economic, social, and political consequences of interventionism
  • The economic consequences
  • Parliamentary government and interventionism
  • Freedom and the economic system
  • The great delusion
  • The source of Hitler's success
  • Conclusions
  • Reading references
  • Index.