New York, NY, Estados Unidos : The Center for Libertarian Studies , c1978.

28 p. ; 22 cm.

Occasional Paper ; 7

Preface. -- I. The clash of group interests. -- II. The myth of the failure of Capitalism (Translated by Jane E. Sanders). -- III. The freedom to move as an international problem (Translated by Bettina Bien Greaves). -- IV. Karl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics (Translated by Albert Zlabinger). --

Tomado del prefacio: "In The Clash of Group Interests, the most important of the little-known essays reprinted here, Ludwig von Mises, the outstanding champion of the free market in this century, avoids the naive trap embraced by so many of his colleagues. Instead, Mises sets forth a highly sophisticated and libertarian theory of classes and of class conflict, by distinguishing sharply between the free market and government intervention. It is true that on the free market there are no clashes of class or group interest; all participants benefit from the market and therefore all their interests are in harmony. But the matter changes drastically, Mises points out, when we move to the intervention of government. For that very intervention necessarily creates conflict between those classes of people who are benefited or privileged by the State, and those who are burdened by it. These conflicting classes created by State intervention Mises calls "castes". In this profound analysis Mises harkens back to the original libertarian theory of class analysis, originated by Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, leaders of French laissez-faire liberalism in the early 19th century."

"The clash of group interests" was originally published in "Approaches to National Unity" (1945).

"The myth of the failure of Capitalism" was originally published as "Die Legende von Versagen des Kapitalismus" in Der Internationale Kapitalismus und die Krise, Festschrift für Julius Wolf (1932).

"The freedom to move as an international problem" was originally published as "Freizügigkeit als internationales Problem" in Wiener Wirtschaftswoche (1935).

"Karl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics" was originally published as "Carl Menger und die österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie" in Neue Freie Presse (1929).

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