Eric Hill

John Maynard Keynes was objectively better than Ludwig von Mises at understanding economic phenomena. Both book sales and academic citations demonstrate this or in terms a free market fundamentalist can understand: "Men lie, women lie but the numbers don't." Prove me wrong.

Capitalism is apparently the most efficient allocation mechanism ever invented, provided you ignore empty houses, homeless people, destroyed food, planned obsolescence, medical bankruptcies, wage theft, monopolies, pollution, bullshit jobs, and periodic financial catastrophes.

Yes - but we need more than a wealth tax: we need a strategy to (humanely) eliminate the billionaire class via a truly progressive taxation system The existence of this class, whose income is more than they can ever spend on their own needs, is the cause of poverty for millions.

The state, however imperfectly it represents the collective will of the people, does not necessarily intervene because capitalism has failed. It intervenes because capitalism, left to its own devices, has no obligation to serve the interests of the society it depends upon.

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The real GOAT. Ludwig von Mises rebuilt economics from the foundation up, and a comparison to Einstein is not flattery: it is a structural observation about what each man did to his field. Einstein rewrote physics by showing that measurements of space and time depended on the observer's frame of reference. Mises did something comparably radical in 1912 with The Theory of Money and Credit, then again in 1920 with the socialist calculation paper, and definitively in 1949 with Human Action: he showed that economic calculation is impossible without private property in capital goods, because prices emerge only from voluntary exchange. The Soviet planners in Moscow were not making policy errors you could fix with better data. They were attempting something logically incoherent, the way you cannot find a square root of a color. Stalin murdered millions chasing a mathematical phantom that Mises proved impossible before the Soviet state was even ten years old. What separates Mises from most geniuses is the range. Einstein worked physics. Mises worked epistemology, monetary theory, capital theory, business cycle theory, and political philosophy simultaneously, weaving them into a single coherent system. His 1922 book Socialism predicted the collapse of every centrally planned economy with the precision of a structural engineer predicting which wall bears load. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. The math was settled in 1922. The state, being an institution that lives by compulsion rather than consent, cannot tolerate this kind of clarity. Governments fund universities. Universities employ economists. Those economists publish papers justifying central banking, redistribution, and regulation, because tenure flows toward conclusions that flatter power. Mises spent years teaching in Vienna without a paid university position, funding himself through the Chamber of Commerce. He was excluded not because he was wrong, but because clarity about power's limits threatens the institutions that distribute tenure. You want to rank intellectual giants; let's rank them by what they overturned and what they built in its place. Mises overturned classical economics, demolished the theoretical case for socialism, and constructed a complete science of human choice on aprioristic foundations. Einstein, asked about Mises by journalist Henry Hazlitt in the 1940s, expressed genuine admiration. The greatest physicist of the 20th century respected the greatest economist. The tenured mediocrities who ignored Mises respected neither.

Ludwig von Mises sat down in 1920 and published a paper that ended the intellectual case for socialism, even if the socialists took another seven decades to notice. The argument was precise. Mises showed that without private ownership of the means of production, there are no real prices for capital goods. Without prices, you cannot calculate profit and loss. Without profit and loss, economic planners have no way of knowing whether they are creating value or destroying it. They are flying blind, spending real resources with no feedback mechanism telling them whether the factory, the railway, or the grain depot was worth building. Every allocation becomes a guess dressed up as a decree. This, he called the Socialist Calculation Problem, and nobody answered it. Oskar Lange tried in 1936, proposing that socialist planners could simulate prices by trial and error. Mises read this and was unimpressed (charitably put). Lange assumed you could reproduce the function of market prices without the institution that generates them: private property, genuine exchange, real skin in the game. You cannot fake the signal and expect accurate information. The Soviet Union spent seventy years proving Mises right. Chronic shortages, misallocated steel, surplus winter boots in Georgia in July, famine engineered by committees convinced they understood grain supply better than the price system. The USSR collapsed in 1991 under the weight of precisely the inefficiencies Mises predicted in Vienna in 1920. You are watching this play out again today, every time a government sets energy prices, rent ceilings, or pharmaceutical price caps, and then expresses shock at the resulting shortages. The calculation problem did not expire with the Soviet Union. Bureaucrats who override price signals recreate the same blindness Mises identified. Mises told you exactly what would happen.

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.@MittRomney is no Communist. Nor is he disparaging of wealth. But here he puts his finger on the problem: When so MUCH wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, and money speaks so loudly in our campaigns, it also represents a concentration of power that skews our democracy.