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Socialism

Socialism

An Economic and Sociological Analysis

by Ludwig von Mises

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This book must rank as the most devastating analysis of socialism yet penned. . . . An economic classic in our time.?Henry HazlittMore than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: "It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wi...

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