{"product_id":"9780865976603","title":"Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this anthology, Mises offers an articulate and accessible introduction to and critique of two topics he considers especially important: inflation and government interventionism. Mises believes inflation, that is monetary expansion, is destructive; it destroys savings and investment, which are the basis for production and prosperity. Government controls and economic planning never accomplish what their proponents intend. Mises consistently argues that the solution to government intervention is free markets and free enterprise, which call for reforming government. For that, ideas must be changed to “let the market system work.” There is no better “planning for freedom” than this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeen essays in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e are tied together by one overarching idea, best expressed by Mises in the capstone essay “Profit and Loss.” The essays in the final section of the book summarize Mises’s contributions to economic thought and emphasize his firm belief in the power of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLudwig von Mises\u003c\/b\u003e (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBettina Bien Greaves\u003c\/b\u003e is a former resident scholar and trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education and was a senior staff member at FEE from 1951 to 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022294499568,"sku":"9780865976603","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865976603_p0.jpg?v=1763826208","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865976603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}