Economical literature

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Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion.

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

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Topic

Free market Capitalism

Author

Ludwig von Mises

Source

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

Genre

Economical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Von Mises, Ludwig. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Yale University Press, 1949, ch. 27.

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman

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Topic

Modern life

Author

Marshall Berman

Source

All That Is Solid Melts into Air

Genre

Economical literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, 1982, introduction.