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Austria
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Economics
James Mill, David Ricardo and the Triumph of Free Trade
by Richard Ebeling January 25, 2017We are in the midst of marking the centenary of the First World War, which was fought from 1914 to 1918.
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We are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and November 11, 1918, the major world powers were in mortal combat with each other. The conflict radically changed the world. It overthrew the pre-1914 era of relatively limited government and free market economics, and ushered in a new epoch of big government, planned economies, and massive inflations, the full effects from which the world has still not recovered.