Mises Daily
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Ludwig M. Lachmann
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[ On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises (1956)] “The market gives wealth to those who can hold it, while politicians give it to their constituents who, as a rule, cannot.” Everywhere today in the free world we find the opponents of the market economy at a loss for plausible arguments. Of late the “case for central