In chapters such as "Why the Worst Get on Top", this book makes its primary argument: that human limitations necessitate that any form of economic planning would eventually lead to tyranny.
This book cites Werner Sombart, the author of Merchants and Heroes, as an example of a thinker who turned poor Germans towards fascism rather than socialism. Another chapter of this book notes that Germans lack "kindliness and good humor" and are deficient in Zivilcourage, or the ability to stand up for the weak and infirm. The last chapter of this book argues that so long as the world contains small states with nationalist sentiment, enforcing international regulations requires the use of force. This book describes an attempt to abolish the "neutrality of chess" in a chapter titled "The End of Truth"; that chapter also criticizes physicists and surgeons who apply Marxist orthodoxy to their trade. In chapters such as "Why the Worst Get on Top", this book makes its primary argument: that human limitations necessitate that any form of economic planning would eventually lead to tyranny. For ten points, name this 1944 work of the co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
This book cites Werner Sombart, the author of Merchants and Heroes, as an example of a thinker who turned poor Germans towards fascism rather than socialism.
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