littlechild - the fallacy of the mixed economy (1986)

The Fallacy of the Mixed
Economy
An ‘Austrian’ Critique of Recent Economic
Thinking and Policy
SECOND EDITION

S . C . L I T T L E C H I L D
The Institute of Economic Affairs
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First published in Great Britain in 1978 by
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Second edition (with postscript) published in 1986
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