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Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

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Ludwig von Mises
Age: 92 †
Born: 1881
Born: September 29
Died: 1973
Died: October 10
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Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Mises
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