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Planned Chaos (Book/ Paperback)

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This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will.

The title comes from Mises's description of the reality of central planning and socialism, whether of the national variety (Nazism) or the international variety (communism). Rather than create an orderly society, the attempt to central plan has precisely the opposite effect. By short-circuiting the price mechanism and forcing people into economic lives contrary to their own chosing, central planning destroys the capital base and creates economic randomness that eventually ends in killing prosperity.

This important work was written decades after Mises's original essay on economic calculation and includes the broadest and boldest attack on all forms of state control.

The contents of this volume include:

Introduction by Chris Westley
Introductory Remarks
1. The Failure of Interventionism
2. The Dictatorial, Anti-democratic and Socialist Character of Interventionism
3. Socialism and Communism
4. Russia's Aggressiveness
5. Trotsky's Heresy
6. The Liberation of the Demons
7. Fascism
8. Nazism
9. The Teachings of the Soviet Experience
10. The Alleged Inevitability of Socialism

About the Author(s)

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (1881-1973) was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who was a prominent figure in the Austrian School of economic thought. Fearing a Nazi take-over of Europe, Mises emigrated to New York in 1940. He published his magnum opus Human Action in 1949. Mises had a significant influence on the Libertarian movement that developed in the United States in the mid-20th century.