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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Part 1

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The Importance of Artistic Exchange

Economists do not espouse a mean materialism. They simply establish that people are motivated by the urge to improve the material conditions of their existence. The term progress is nonsensical when applied toco mic events or to a comprehensive world view. We have no information about the plans of the prime mover, but it is different with its use in the frame of an ideological doctrine. He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

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