Quotes About Von Mises

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

Nadie, ni siquiera Von Mises, ha reseñado mejor que Hayek los beneficios en todos los órdenes que trajo al ser humano aquel sistema de intercambios que nadie inventó, que fue naciendo y perfeccionándose a resultas del azar y, sobre todo, de la irrupción de ese accidente en la historia humana que es la libertad.

Men like Hayek or von Mises seemed doomed to professional and cultural marginality. Only when the welfare states whose failure they had so sedulously predicted began to run into difficulties did they once again find an audience for their views: