What Do Mises, Rothbard and Hayek Say About Technocracy?
Now that we know that the end goal for Trump and Elon is for us to live in a technocracy or a technate administered by a gov-corp, another step toward global government or a New World order, what would libertarianism and its founding leaders think about this?
I asked X’s AI tool Grok: What do Mises, Hayek and Rothbard and libertarianism say about technocracy?
They wouldn’t care for it. Grok’s response:
Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and the broader libertarian tradition offer critical perspectives on technocracy, rooted in their emphasis on individual liberty, spontaneous order, and skepticism of centralized control. While they don’t address “technocracy” as a single, unified concept in identical terms, their works critique systems where technical experts wield authority over economic or social life, which aligns with technocracy’s core idea. Here’s how each thinker and libertarianism generally approach it:
Ludwig von Mises
Mises, an Austrian economist, didn’t explicitly target technocracy as a movement but critiqued centralized planning and expert-driven control, which technocracy often implies. In Human Action (1949), he argues that economic calculation is impossible without market prices, a point he developed in his 1920 essay “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” Technocracy, with its vision of engineers or scientists managing society based on e
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