Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Patterns, Study

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

• The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Entrepreneur, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.6, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Groups, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1093, Lulu Press, Inc

• Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Animal, Psychology

• The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Men, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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