Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Prosperity

Quotes about: Prosperity

• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Peace, War

• True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Government, Issues

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

• As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Gold, Height

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Earthquakes, Prosperity

• Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Slumps, Credit, Way

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

• Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Firsts

• Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Gold, Quota

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Slumps, Expansion, Credit

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.486, VM eBooks

• The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Optimistic, Frustration, People

• Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Past, Years, Two

• The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Data, Slumps

• The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

  Ludwig von Mises

  United States, Outcomes, Facts

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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