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 | Smith did not inaugurate a new chapter in social philosophy and did not sow on land hitherto left uncultivated. | Economic Freedom and Interventionism | p. 115 | Smith, Adam |
| Ludwig von Mises | Reading Smith is no more a substitute for studying economics than reading Euclid is a substitute for the study of mathematics. | Economic Freedom and Interventionism | p. 117 | Smith, Adam |