Cea mai accesibilă introducere la teoria calculului economic şi la paradigma misesiană. Dezvoltă pătrunzător problemele economice (îndeosebi ceea ce Rothbard avea să numească sugestiv "problema centrelor de haos calculaţional") şi pe cele socio-psihologice ("mentalitatea birocratică") inerente gestiunii birocratice de stat.
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Birocraţia şi imposibilitatea planificării raţionale în regim socialist
„There is of course nothing wrong with experimenting with
cheaper alternatives to gold and silver coins. Nothing would
preclude such experiments in a free society. All we can say is
that in the past all such experiments have lamentably failed.
And the advocates of paper money therefore hardly ever seri-
ously considered establishing their pet scheme on a competi-
tive basis. Ricardo and his followers advocate the coercive
replacement of a more costly good by a cheaper one. Clearly,
in all other spheres of life, we would reject any such proposal
as extravagant and outrageous. We do not coerce all members
of society into driving only the cheapest cars because they sat-
isfy some arbitrarily conceived “transportation needs” at low-
est cost. We do not impose rags and hovels on people who
prefer clothes and houses. Neither is there a reason to impose
paper money on those who prefer the monies of the ages.”
Jörg Guido Hülsmann : The Ethics of Money Production, p. 81
