Interventionism : an economic analysis / / Ludwig von Mises ; edited and with a foreword by Bettina Bien Greaves.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973.
• TeilnehmendeR: Greaves, Bettina Bien.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 101 p.
• Notes: "Originally published in 1998 by Foundation for Economic Education, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Author's preface
• Introduction
• The problem
• Capitalism or market economy
• The socialist economy
• The capitalist state and the socialist state
• The interventionist state
• The plea for moral reform
• Interference by restriction
• The nature of restrictive measures
• Costs and benefits of restrictive measures
• The restrictive measure as a privilege
• Restrictive measures as expenditures
• Interference by price control
• The alternative: statutory law versus economic law
• The reaction of the market
• Minimum wages and unemployment
• The political consequences of unemployment
• Inflation and credit expansion
• Inflation
• Credit expansion
• Foreign exchange control
• The flight of capital and the problem of "hot money"
• Confiscation and subsidies
• Confiscation
• The procurement of funds for public expenditure
• Unprofitable public works and subsidies
• "Altruistic" entrepreneurship
• Corporativism and syndicalism
• Corporativism
• Syndicalism
• War economy
• War and the market economy
• Total war and war socialism
• Market economy and national defense
• The economic, social, and political consequences of interventionism
• The economic consequences
• Parliamentary government and interventionism
• Freedom and the economic system
• The great delusion
• The source of Hitler's success
• Conclusions
• Reading references
• Index.