Margit von Mises compiled her husband's lectures in Argentina in 1959. The outcome is the book, Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow. Regnery/Gateway, Inc., Chicago first published this book in 1979. Mises argued in the book that the best economic policy is to limit the government to its proper role and to make it sure that the market environment is conducive to its free operation. The focus of the government should be the protection of life, freedom, and private property of citizens both from domestic and foreign aggression. The author expounded this idea into six lectures on capitalism, socialism, interventionism, inflation, foreign investment, and policies and ideas. Capitalism The first lecture centers on misconceptions about capitalism. It is about interconnected economic facts that are not widely known about capitalism. Examples of these facts include its historical setting and distinction from feudalism, its contribution to population growth, savings and higher s...
This course covers three areas considered important in Christian social thought: cultural, political, and with particular emphasis on economics. Studying the current issues under the identified three dimensions in relation to revelation, our goal is to appreciate, to critique, and to come up with a way of thinking and with a kind of activism based on Christian worldview.