5P2 Planning for Freedom Ludwig von Mises

5P2 Planning for Freedom Ludwig von Mises 

In this anthology, Mises offers an articulate and accessible introduction to and critique of two topics he considers especially important: inflation and government interventionism. According to Mises, inflation, that is monetary expansion, is destructive; it destroys savings and investment, which are the basis for production and prosperity. Government controls and economic planning never accomplish what their proponents intend. Mises consistently argues that the solution to government intervention is free markets and free enterprise, which call for reforming government. For that, ideas must be changed to “let the market system work.” There is no better “planning for freedom” than this.

Table of Contents:

• CONTENTS
• Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition
• PART 1: The Free Market Economy versus Government Planning
• 1: Planning for Freedom*
• 2: Laissez Faire or Dictatorship*
• 3: Capital Supply and American Prosperity*
• PART 2: Money, Inflation, and Government
• 4: Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism*
• 5: Inflation and Price Control*
• 6: Economic Aspects of the Pension Problem*
• 7: Wages, Unemployment, and Inflation*
• 8: The Gold Problem*
• PART 3: Mises: Critic of Inflationism and Socialism
• 9: Benjamin M. Anderson Challenges the Philosophy of the Pseudo-Progressives*
• 10: Lord Keynes and Say’s Law*
• 11: Stones into Bread, the Keynesian Miracle*
• 12: Liberty and Its Antithesis*
• PART 4: Ideas
• 13: My Contributions to Economic Theory*
• 14: Economic Teaching at the Universities*
• 15: The Political Chances of Genuine Liberalism*
• 16: Trends Can Change*
• 17: Profit and Loss*