Ray Haynes

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10/01/2005 Free Market Ray Haynes

The Free Market 26, no. 10 (October 2005) In the first line of his book, Planning for Freedom, Ludwig von Mises, the famed Austrian economist, observed “Planning is socialism.” I will admit that my...

Planning Is Socialism

09/14/2005 Mises Daily Ray Haynes

Ray Haynes read a dozen books in graduate school about how to plan for economic growth. Then he sat on a City Planning Commission.

Dangerous Laws

05/14/2001 Mises Daily Ray Haynes

When the state passes a law, even if trivial, it backs that law by the threat of force. Sometimes it actually uses it. Ray Haynes explains.

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