The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth. An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism.

Publication date: 1962

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Translated by Ralph Raico. Edited by Arthur Goddard. First edition in English. 8vo. x, 207, [1] pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (ownership stamp of 'O.C. Orr, Jr.' to rear pastedown, contents otherwise clean and fresh; some light wear to extremities of jacet, spine panel faded, otherwise an excellent copy).Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.  A classic statement in defence of a free society and one of the last statements of the old liberal school, originally published in German in 1927 under the title 'Liberalismus'. 'In a century marked by accelerating statisticism and collectivism, Mises stood out among scholars as an uncompromising stalwart of laissez-faire' (Murray N. Rothbard, in The New Palgrave). ?It was written to address the burning question: if not socialism, and if not fascism or interventionism, what form of social arrangements are most conducive to human flourishing? Mises's answer is summed up in the title, by which he meant classical liberalism. Mises did more than restate classical doctrine. He gave a thoroughly modern defence of freedom, one that corrected the errors of the old liberal school by rooting the idea of liberty in the institution of private property (a subject on which the classical school was sometimes unclear).? (Mises Institute).…

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Title
The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth. An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism.
Author
MISES (Ludwig von).
Publication year
1962
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Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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