Mises Daily
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Ludwig von Mises
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[ Economic Freedom and Interventionism (1980)] Animals are driven by instinctive urges. They yield to the impulse that prevails at the moment and peremptorily asks for satisfaction. They are the puppets of their appetites. Man’s eminence is to be seen in the fact that he chooses between alternatives. He regulates his behavior deliberatively. He