Ludwig von Mises: "Monetary calculation and cost accounting constitute the most important intellectual tool of the capitalist entrepreneur, and it was no one less than Goethe who pronounced the system of double-entry bookkeeping one of the finest inventions of the human mind." - Liberalism
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| Ludwig von Mises | Man is the only animal that is able, within definite limits, to adjust his environment purposively to suit him better. | The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science | p. 8 | Environment |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is vain to provide for the needs of ages the technological abilities of which we cannot even dream. | Human Action | p. 383; p. 386 | Environment |
| Ludwig von Mises | Talk about the magnificence of untouched nature is idle if it does not take into account what man has got by desecrating nature. | Theory and History | pp. 218-19 | Environment |