Liberty and Economics

What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big government until the day he died ... in 25 books, hundreds of articles, and more than 60 years of teaching.

Mises's battles against Communists, Nazis, and other socialists, are featured in this film, as are his ideas of Liberty. There is also the old Vienna he loved, the Bolshevik prime minister he dissuaded from Communism, and a cast of villains from Lenin to Hitler, as well as such supporters and students as Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina Greaves, M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev.

Among his many accomplishments, Mises showed that socialism had to fail, that central banking causes recessions and depressions, that the gold standard is honest money, and that only laissez-faire capitalism is fully compatible with Western civilization.

Mises was the twentieth century's foremost economist, and one of its most important champions of Liberty. Here is a film that does justice to this extraordinary man, and to his equally extraordinary ideas.

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[Mark Vance]

& 7 Keynesians

[Keimh3regPeh2uMeg]

71 Socialists + 7 Keynesians + 4 Fascists = 82 dislikes.

[DrTruthiness]

Define "practical knowledge". Keynesian economics, for all its faults, still produces measurable, observable results that can be tested against the theory.

It's essentially the opposite of your subjective, emotional pouting which you embarrassingly seem to think passes for logical reasoning. If you re-read what you wrote, all you do is bitch. You just kind of sound like you're on your period.

[Rafael V]

I would tried to explained the difference to you or anybody like you, by putting another great Mises quotations "Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management." Clear enough.

[gary morrison]

From the sound of that quote it would seem that L. V. Mises has resigned himself to a conception of human beings based upon a fear of what they might do if they were to reject being reduced to commodities in pursuit of the mindless imperative of growth, ecological catastrophe and social disintigration. His tendency is to invert the meaning of terms, as if by doing so he could escape the gravitational pull of reality both as an historical experience and as a set of predictable social outcomes.

[gary morrison]

Economics has not produced a shread of practical knowlege in over a century. Economists are by trade a specie of entertainer who long ago took up a position on the lower rungs of show business, a little to the right of the televangelists. It is comfort to know that with the blessing of these crack-pot Austrians, should you happen to have spent your life stealing from the poor you can still argue that it was all for the greater glory of liberty. Money it's a hit, don't give me that goody good BS.

[Keimh3regPeh2uMeg]

Haha. If you scroll down far enough you'll see.

[kingbacon]

Fuck Ludwig von Mises in his grave and fuck all the followers he has today. I offer a dihrrea shit into the mouth of Ludwig von Mises. The world and the economy will just take care of itself. If he was right then why is there crises after crises. Oh yeah the government cased the crises. As long as there is a government it will always be their fault.Well,then you're an anarchist and guess what.That's nothing new.

[MisesEnForce]

Do anyone here know the compositor(s) of the various pieces of music heard during the documentary ? Especially the one starting at 27:17 ? Thx.

[Schweetness101]

& 4 dirty commies

[Pablo Jarvis]

It's a shame von M missed out on the delightful financial crisis of 07

I'm sure he would have pointed the finger at socialism there too, and rightly so

[Cindy Chen]

71 Nazis!