The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays
1945
Summary
In this 1945 essay collection, Mises rebuts the Marxist claim that class conflict is inherent to the market order: voluntary exchange harmonizes interests, since every trade benefits both parties. Genuine, irreconcilable conflict arises only when government intervention creates privileged and underprivileged castes, locking each into a struggle to expand or escape its assigned status. The volume also gathers three shorter essays on capitalism, freedom of movement, and Carl Menger’s founding of the Austrian School.
ISBN: 978-1479372980