tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073216153962700110.post3340380394765547302..comments2023-07-15T04:51:17.650-04:00Comments on Smiling Dave's Blog of Psychology, Economics, and Gentle Sarcasm.: Random Myths.Smiling Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12898802942529057872noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073216153962700110.post-30979051303839662042011-09-20T12:21:28.014-04:002011-09-20T12:21:28.014-04:00LK,
I asked the guys about Mises and Dolfuss. You ...LK,<br />I asked the guys about Mises and Dolfuss. You can see their replies at the mises.org forum [the old one]. The thread there is called "Mises a Hypocrite?"Smiling Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12898802942529057872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073216153962700110.post-41853147548408817322011-09-19T22:23:01.246-04:002011-09-19T22:23:01.246-04:00Good to see you back, LK.Good to see you back, LK.Smiling Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12898802942529057872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073216153962700110.post-55417379446532602372011-09-19T20:54:27.623-04:002011-09-19T20:54:27.623-04:00"According to historian Tibor Ivan Berend, di...<i>"According to historian Tibor Ivan Berend, dirigisme [=intense govt meddling] was an inherent aspect of fascist economies."</i><br /><br />And other historians dispute that. Fascism was a complex movement, and fascist economics differed.<br /><br />Mussolini originally pursued standard neoclassical <i>laissez faire</i> policies:<br /><br />"From 1922 to 1925, Mussolini's regime pursued a laissez-faire economic policy under the liberal finance minister Alberto De Stefani. De Stefani reduced taxes, regulations, and trade restrictions and allowed businesses to compete with one another. But his opposition to protectionism and business subsidies alienated some industrial leaders, and De Stefani was eventually forced to resign."<br /><br />http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/Fascism.html<br /><br />(2) The Austro-fascism of the Dollfuss and Schuschnigg regime in Austria pursued classical deflationary neoclassical policies:<br /><br />“In tackling the economic crisis the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg dictatorship pursued harsh deflationary policies designed to balance the budget and stabilize the currency. The government’s program featured severe spending cuts, high interest rates, and frozen wages. ... In a sense the Christian Corporative regime demonstrated the viability of the Austrian state, but it did so at the cost of alienating a majority of the Austrian people. On the eve of Anschluss a third of the population was still out of work, while those fortunate enough to have jobs were bringing home paychecks considerably smaller than before the Great War.”<br /><br />Evan Burr Bukey, <i>Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945</i> (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), p. 17. <br /><br />And as for Austro-fascism, none other than Ludwig von Mises himself was an adviser of dictator Engelbert Dollfuss:<br /><br /><i>“Gerhard Jagschitz …. wrote his doctoral dissertation on Engelbert Dollfuss, the Austrian Chancellor who tried to prevent the Nazis from taking over Austria. During this period Mises was chief economist for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Before Dollfuss was murdered for his politics, Mises was one of his closest advisers.”</i><br /><br />Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “The Meaning of the Mises Papers,” Mises.org, April 1997.<br />http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=137Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.com