With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
Ralph RaicoTariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.
Ralph RaicoKeynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist โexperimentsโ of the 1930s.
Ralph RaicoProtectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.
Ralph RaicoThe nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of โnational economyโ . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of โnational economyโ . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.
Ralph Raico