Socialism
An Economic and Sociological Analysis
by Ludwig von Mises · first published 1936
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More than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: "It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . . To none of us young men who read the book when it appeared was the world ever the same again." This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of socialism ever devised. Mises presents a wide-ranging analysis of society, comparing the results of socialist planning with those
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Socialism by Ludwig von Mises (1930s) As a Systems Engineer, I've always been fascinated by systems both for computation and involving people. Concepts in business process design/implementation have quite the…
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗…"Socialist" in the full name of the republic or something...</deadpan> For anyone interested who doesn't understand the spectrum of socialist organization, read almost any book by Ludwig von Mises (start with "Socialism", where he catalogs the socialist orers of the early 1920s) and work your way forward.
on “White Coke” ↗…you really try to understand these books, you may come away having no idea what your political leanings are): 1. Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto, and Das Kapital 2. Ludwig von Mises - Socialism, and Human Action 3. Hayek - Road to Serfdom Those are some of my favorites. There is a giant queue I have left to read, and I've also left off some good ones. There are quite a few additional…
on “Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?” ↗For a thorough understanding of free-markets and the laws of economics, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by George Reisman. Economic Sophisms by Frédéric Bastiat. Socialism by Ludwig von Mises.
on “Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?” ↗…common ways intractably, and as a result this cannot be a solution. A good rule of thumb is, if it involves a centralized hierarchy structure; its more likely than not going to be some form of communism/socialism (fabian/globalist/its gradual neighbor)/or collectivism, and one must consider slippery slopes where once you adopt one thing, you slip all the way down to another. Ludwig von Mises wrote a book back…
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