Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and TomorrowLudwig von Mises Institute, 2006 - 108 pagine |
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Pagina 17 - If the government owns all the printing presses, it will determine what is to be printed and what is not to be printed. And...
Pagina 78 - ... Ludwig von Mises, ... the great British economist Ricardo still took it for granted that ... capitalists would not try to invest abroad. But a few decades later, capital investment abroad began to play a most important role in world affairs .... Foreign investment meant that British capitalists invested in those European countries which, from the point of view of Great Britain, were short of capital and backward in their development. It is a well-known fact that the railroads of most European...
Pagina 30 - ... background and influences to which they have been exposed. In many colleges and universities the nature of this requirement is such, either by State law or by trustee action having full...
Pagina 88 - There has been an illegal, non-legal, or extra-legal adjustment founded upon common sense which has worked in the past, and it will work in the future.
Pagina 18 - Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."*) Man is ') John Locke, Treatise of Govermnment, B.
Pagina 13 - This increase in the number of brands has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the amount of fertilizer sold, the estimated sales for 1S91 being 26,750 tons, against 29,000 tons for 1890, a decrease of 8 per cent.
Pagina 77 - ... it had a higher standard of living than all other European countries. But, "something happened which caused the headstart of Great Britain to disappear." That something was the internationalization of capital. In 1817, writes economist Ludwig von Mises, ... the great British economist Ricardo still took it for granted that ... capitalists would not try to invest abroad. But a few decades later, capital investment abroad began to play a most important role in world affairs .... Foreign investment...
Pagina 66 - Venezuela could be the richest country in the world with the highest standard of living for the people, with the oil deposits it has.
Pagina vii - ... medical technology. Given this circumstance, the sale of human organs is likely to flourish unless strongly deterred by legal or ethical controls. Such a market could alleviate the shortage of organs and tissues, thus saving and improving the quality of more lives. It would also respect the freedom of individuals to do as they wish so long as they do not harm others. Yet Professor Dickens finds "the prospect of a free commercial market in organs . . . morally intolerable ... it would favor well-insured...
Pagina 5 - ... factories, had lived under satisfactory conditions, is one of the greatest falsehoods of history. The mothers who worked in the factories had nothing to cook with; they did not leave their homes and their kitchens to go into the factories, they went into factories because they had no kitchens, and if they had a kitchen they had no food to cook in those kitchens. And the children did not come from comfortable nurseries. They were starving and dying.