Ludwig Von Mises is important because his teachings are necessary to the preservation of capitalism and thus of civilization.
George Reisman
Tariffs, Transportation Costs & The Case for Unilateral Free Trade
A policy of unilateral free trade is analytically equivalent in its effects to a fall in inbound transportation costs while outbound transportation costs remain the same.
Arab Oil Embargo Would Not Be a Threat to a Free Market Economy
If the United States had had a free market in oil when the Arabs imposed their embargo, its oil supplies could not have been seriously jeopardized.
Global Prices in a Free Market
In a free market, there is a tendency toward the establishment of a uniform price for the same good throughout the world.
Final Thoughts on the Uniformity of Profit Principle
The uniformity-of-profit principle describes a tendency, never an actually existing state of affairs.
Business Tax Exemptions and the U.S. Oil Industry
The uniformity-of-profit principle sheds light on the effect of business tax exemptions and their elimination.
Profits and the Repeal of Price Controls & Government Subsidies
Farm subsidies are a way the government achieves artificially high prices. They are an illustration of legal minimum prices—that is, prices below which the government prevents the producers from selling.
The Profit Motive as an Agent of Innovation and Progress, Part 2
The operation of the tendency toward a uniform rate of profit requires that high profits be made by continuously introducing productive innovations in advance of competitors.
The Profit Motive as an Agent of Innovation and Progress, Part 1
How the profit motive acts to make production steadily increase in a free market, and becomes an agent of continuous economic progress.
Capitalism’s Visible Hand: Profit Seeking Benefits Consumers in a Free Market
The real advocates of the consumers—their virtual agents—are businessmen seeking profit, not the leaders of groups trying to restrict the freedom of businessmen to earn profits.
Capitalism’s Visible Hand: Production for Profit is Production for Use
In total opposition to the misguided efforts of the Marxists to contrast production for profit with “production for use,” the fact is that production for profit is production for use.
Capitalism’s Visible Hand: How Profit Allocates Capital Across Industries
The uniformity-of-profit principle explains how the activities of all the separate business enterprises are harmoniously coordinated so that capital is not invested excessively in the production of some items while leaving the production of other items unprovided for.
Capitalism’s Visible Hand: The Uniformity of Profit Principle
The best way to begin to understand the functioning of the price system, and thus the full nature of the dependence of the division of labor on capitalism, is by understanding the following very simple and fundamental principle. Namely, there is a tendency in a free market toward the establishment of a uniform rate of profit on capital invested in all the different branches of industry.
Capitalism and the Economic History of the United States
The development of all the institutional features of capitalism is well illustrated by the economic history of the United States.
Capitalism and the Origin of Economic Institutions
Economic progress is the leading manifestation of yet another major institutional feature of capitalism: the harmony of the rational self-interests of all men, in which the success of each promotes the well-being of all.
Capitalism and Freedom Require Government
The existence of freedom under laissez-faire capitalism requires the existence of government.
The Philosophical Foundations of Capitalism
The greatest era of capitalist development—the last two centuries—has taken place under the ongoing cultural influence of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
Capitalism: The Nature and Importance of Economics
Economics belongs alongside mathematics, natural science, history, philosophy, and the humanities as an integral part of a liberal education.
Capitalism: Economics, the Division of Labor, and the Survival of Material Civilization
What makes the science of economics necessary and important is the fact that while human life and well-being depend on the production of wealth, and the production of wealth depends on the division of labor, the division of labor does not exist or function automatically.
Socialism: Armed Robbery and Murder Based on Delusion and Profound Ignorance
Video of George Reisman’s TedX talk on socialism.
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