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Planning for Freedom And Sixteen Other Essays and Addresses

Page ii Acknowledgments To reprint articles previously published, we are indebted to: Commercial and Financial Chronicle, New York, New York Plain Talk (Reprinted by permission of Issac Don Levine, Editor) The Freeman, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York Farmand, Oslo, Norway Christian Economics, Buena Park, California Bramble Minibooks Oakley R. Bramble, Publisher Lansing, Michigan Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, New York, New York Henry Hazlitt, Wilton, Connecticut Mont Plerin Quarterly, Zurich, Switzerland Gottfried Haberler Albert Hunold

Page iii Planning for Freedom And Sixteen Other Essays and Addresses Ludwig von Mises Also: The Essential von Mises by Murray N. Rothbard Fourth EditionEnlarged Libertarian Press P.O. Box 309 401 Erie Street Grove City, PA 16127 (724) 458-5861 FAX: (724) 458-5962 e-mail:info@libertarianpress.com http://www.libertarianpress.com

Page iv Copyright 1952, 1962, 1974 and 1980 by Libertarian Press. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Brief quotations may be included in a review, and all inquiries should be addressed to: Libertarian Press, Post Office Box 309, Grove City, Pennsylvania 16127. This book was manufactured in the United States of America. First Edition May, 1952 Second Edition, enlarged with Essay X May, 1962 Third Printing April, 1964 Fourth Printing September, 1965 Fifth Printing November, 1969 Memorial Edition (Third) June, 1974 Seventh Printing June, 1974 Fourth Edition, enlarged by Articles XIVXVII and Rothbard addition January, 1980 Eighth Printing June, 1996 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Von Mises, Ludwig, 18811973. Planning for Freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Economic policyAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Rothbard, Murray Newton, 19261995 The Essential Von Mises. 1980. II. Title. HD82.V6 1980 338.9 80-10765 ISBN 0-910884-31-5

Page v Original Preface The author of the essays and addresses presented in this volume, Professor Ludwig von Mises, is one of the foremost economists of our age. Inspired in his early career by the work of his teachers, the great Austrian economists Carl Menger and Eugen von Bhm-Bawerk, he has in a series of scholarly investigations systematically analyzed every important economic problem, critically exploded inveterate errors and substituted sound ideas for discarded fallacies. Finally in 1949, in his great book Human Action,* he has integrated the result of his studies in a comprehensive treatise dealing with every aspect of economic theory as well as of economic policies. In his studies on money and credit Dr. Mises has unmasked the illusiveness of all arguments advanced in favor of a policy of inflation and credit expansion. He has shown how the boom that an "easy money" policy artificially produces must inevitably lead to a slump. He has demonstrated that the almost regular recurrence of periods of economic depression is not caused by any shortcomings inherent in the very nature of the market economythe capitalist systembut, on the contrary, the necessary effect of sometimes well-intentioned, but always ill-advised attempts to tamper with the operation of the market. The advocates of inflation and credit expansion have in vain tried to discredit this doctrine, the so-called Austrian theory of the trade cycle. Eventsthe collapse of the German currency in 1923, the great depression of 1929 and the following years, the troubles brought about by the present inflationhave clearly proved its correctness. No less important than Dr. Mises' contributions to the problems of money, capital and credit are those of his writings that * Third revised edition 1966, Henry Regnery Co.

Page vi deal with the effects of socialism communism, planning and all kinds of government interference with the market, e.g., price and wage control. An economist cannot satisfy himself with pure analysis and scientific interpretations of reality. His teachings imply in themselves an attack upon the political parties whose programs they confute. From the very beginnings of his work as an economist Dr. Mises vigorously opposed those tenets and creeds whose application was bound to destroy Europe's civilization and prosperity. He boldly attacked the German Historical School, the forerunners of Hitler's National Socialism, and the Marxians, harbingers of one of the most ruthless dictatorships the world has ever seen. And he fights today in America the ascendancy of the same mentality of all-round regimentation.

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