Only in the later decades of the nineteenth century was the hold of liberal ideas shaken. This was effected by the doctrines of etatism. Etatism . . . is a system of socio-political ideas which has no counterpart in older history and is not linked up with older ways of thinking, although — with regard to the technical character of the policies which it recommends — it may with some justification be called neo-Mercantilism.
Ludwig von Mises, defining statism (etatism) in Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and the Total War (1944).
