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Mises or Orwell

Mises or Orwell

Some students in Moscow do seem rather confused on Mises's contribution. Says the Moscow Times: college students were asked the name of the author of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchic Collectivism," a work invented by George Orwell in 1984, his satirical masterpiece about the Stalinist Soviet Union. In a multiple choice quiz, all but one marked Ludwig von Mises. (The full Moscow Times article was available yesterday but only to subscribers today.)

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