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The Economics Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall

by Ryan McMaken Much of the media discussion around the […]

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by Ryan McMaken

Much of the media discussion around the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall will focus on American military politics and the politicians of the time. But to truly understand why the Soviet system in Eastern Europe collapsed, we must look to Mises’s pioneering work on economic planning.

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