Conservatives would do well to arm themselves for the debate over national economic policy by stocking up on ammunition from the Austrian School of Economics. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) is the recognized founder of the Austrian School.  His book Planned Chaos (1947) was first published over 60 years ago, but remains relevant today.Here are several excerpts from it:[Socialism vs. Interventionism] "The system of the hampered market economy, or interventionism, differs from socialism by the very fact that it is still market economy. The authority seeks to influence the market by the intervention of its coercive power, but it does not want to eliminate the market altogether. It desires that production and consumption should develop along lines difference from those prescribed by the unhindered market, and it wants to achieve its aim by injecting into the working of the market orders, commands, and prohibitions for whose enforcement the police power and its apparatus of...(Read Full Post)