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Richard M. Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College and Vice-President of the Academic Affairs for the Future of Freedom Foundation, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Beinhaltet die Namen: Richard Ebeling, Richard M. Ereling

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The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays (1996) — Herausgeber — 104 Exemplare
Austrian Economics: A Reader (1991) — Herausgeber — 20 Exemplare
Human Action: A 50-Year Tribute (2000) 12 Exemplare

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Travelogue: Journeys with Mises — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Not light bedtime reading, but a lot of interesting comment on the worldwide financial markets and the South African labour market of today, as written more than 50 years ago...
 
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rendier | 1 weitere Rezension | Jan 25, 2024 |
Cool short story about the "invisible hand". It gives a refreshing perspective on the million of goods and services generated by the modern economy every seconds - how it could be extremely difficult to plan and make a pencil from scratch without free competition, private property and market.

My question is, is free market the only place where innovation thrives? There are advanced inventions that are a direct product of central planning and governmental research funding - coming to my mind are Apollo 11, atomic bombs, even some argue, the many technology components behind the first iPhone ([b:Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy|33358206|Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy|Tim Harford|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1491703991l/33358206._SY75_.jpg|54098044] has a great chapter on this). Military research seems to be a great driving force in technology advancement

Perhaps the free market is the best way to productionalize and distribute progress?

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footgun | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 28, 2022 |
Not light bedtime reading, but a lot of interesting comment on the worldwide financial markets and the South African labour market of today, as written more than 50 years ago...
 
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rendier | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 20, 2020 |
The majority of this essay explores the complexity of industry behind making a single pencil, and the complex interplay between mining and chemistry and shipping and so forth -- millions of people to produce "the pencil" and no one person who is The Maker of The Pencil (my phrasing).

And then it attributes this miracle of industry to the free market and extrapolates the decentralized nature of all these resources coming together into a pencil into the almost godly state of the Invisible Hand of the Free Market.… (mehr)
 
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elam11 | 3 weitere Rezensionen | May 30, 2020 |

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