For hundreds of years, politicians (like a certain current US president) have pushed the idea that one man's profit is another man's loss. The job of the state is to even the score. Mises explains that the whole assumption is wrong at its very core.

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Rothbard shows that Gresham's law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the "arrogant, boorish, and feisty" Sir Thomas Smith the Elder (1513–1577), a bitter critic of debasement who was exiled from the court in 1549. He fought back with a book.

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It seems now that almost everyone, from journalists to academics to clergy, relies unthinkingly on Marxian doctrines. Their deterministic ideas seem impervious to any argument. Of course, they've never read Ludwig von Mises.

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Rothbard's vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing. To the contrary, a large number of important items have never been published. Many of these are reports he wrote for the William Volker Fund, writes David Gordon.

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Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good's employment may generate — and all the disadvantages resulting from its employment, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the king or his actions were good or evil, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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There is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporally and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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These documents are a joyful alternative career of Rothbard's writings and research, and as such inherently one of the most valuable (and most fun) intellectual resources of the past century, writes Brian Doherty.

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Critics condemn economic theory for disregarding the role that power plays in real life. Real man, they say, is not free to choose and to act: it is not his value judgments but the forces of power that determine market phenomena. These objections are no less spurious than all other statements of the critics of economics, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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Marx and Engels, two men of unquestionable bourgeois background, hatched the class ideology of the proletarian class. They believed their adversaries could only be either bourgeois idiots or proletarian traitors, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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