Planned Chaos by Ludwig Von Mises Paperback Book

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Rent Planned Chaos

Author: Ludwig Von Mises

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Institute

Published: Sep 2014

Genre: Business & Economics - Economics - Theory

Pages: 102

Synopsis

This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title comes from Mises's description of the reality of central planning and socialism, whether of the national variety (Nazism) or the international variety (communism). Rather than create an orderly society, the attempt to central plan has precisely the opposite effect. By short-circuiting the price mechanism and forcing people into economic lives contrary to their own chosing, central planning destroys the capital base and creates economic randomness that eventually ends in killing prosperity. This important work was written decades after Mises's original essay on economic calculation and includes the broadest and boldest attack on all forms of state control.

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