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Along with Murray Rothbard, and unlike the socialists and interventionists, we understand that economic growth comes from what has been called “the production-and-exchange process.” This process has promoted the increase of living standards and led to civilization. Rothbard writes, “Man has found that, through the process of voluntary, mutual exchange, the productivity and hence, the living standards of all participants in exchange may increase enormously.”
This peaceful and mutually beneficial process has been titled the “economic means” of acquiring wealth. But there is another means, which the Mises Institute disavows—the “political means.” This involves the acquisition of wealth not through production but via coerced exchange to acquire the production of others. This is the way of the state and its cronies.
Because the Mises Institute wholeheartedly rejects the “political means,” it is wholly dependent on value-for-value exchange and the gifts of its generous donors and friends, who voluntarily unite in the mission of the Mises Institute.
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