"Linguistic assimilation is not always the spontaneous outcome of the conditions under which the individual lives. It is caused not only by environment and cultural factors; governments can encourage it or even achieve it by compulsion. It is an illusion to believe that language is a nonarbitrary cri"
"All sorts of government interference in business, in the countries inhabited by different linguistic groups, are used for the purpose of injuring the pariahs. Custom tariffs, taxation, foreign exchange regulations, subsidies, labor legislation, and so on may be utilized for discrimination, even thou"
Mises1940年代初流亡美国后出版的第一部著作,批评的主要对象虽然是纳粹德国,但考虑到美国读者,在德文版基础上作了大幅扩充。在讨论中也不时用连带批评所有主张国家实施经济控制的progressive。与同年出版的Road to Serfdom,本书更强调极权国经济政策与其进攻性外交政策之间的关联,发展了威尔逊的“民主国家和平论”。