The Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises
Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves
The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
Bureaucracy
Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory
Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work
A Collection of Essays and Addresses
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
The Theory of Money and Credit
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
Edited by Richard M. Ebeling
Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises
Volume 1: Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War
Volume 2: Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression
Volume 3: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction
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Interventionism was written by Ludwig von Mises in 1940 and is here translated from the original German by Thomas Francis McManus and Heinrich Bund.
Editorial additions and index © 1998, 2011 by Liberty Fund, Inc.
Interventionism was originally published in 1998 by Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.
Front cover photograph of Ludwig von Mises used by permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
This eBook edition published in 2013.
eBook ISBNs:
Kindle 978-1-61487-622-9
E-PUB 978-1-61487-248-1
CONTENTS
1 The Problem
2 Capitalism or Market Economy
4 The Capitalist State and the Socialist State
1 The Nature of Restrictive Measures
2 Costs and Benefits of Restrictive Measures
3 The Restrictive Measure as a Privilege
4 Restrictive Measures as Expenditures
II Interference by Price Control
1 The Alternative: Statutory Law versus Economic Law
3 Minimum Wages and Unemployment
4 The Political Consequences of Unemployment
III Inflation and Credit Expansion
1 Inflation
4 The Flight of Capital and the Problem of “Hot Money”
1 Confiscation
2 The Procurement of Funds for Public Expenditure
3 Unprofitable Public Works and Subsidies
4 “Altruistic” Entrepreneurship
V Corporativism and Syndicalism
1 Corporativism
1 War and the Market Economy