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Nicholas Snow is a 4th year Ph.D. student in economics at George Mason University. From January 2008 to August 2008 he was the Leonard E. Read Research Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.Articles »
Böhm-Bawerk for the Citizen
Posted in From the Archives on 26 January 2012
Stats: 221 views and 1 Comment Economics is often considered the dismal science. To the average person it appears dry and boring but this should not be the case. While economics is not as dismal as it is often portrayed, it is not something the average person must learn. As Murray Rothbard once said, It is no crime to be ignorant [...]
Posted in From the Archives on 26 January 2012
Stats: 221 views and 1 Comment Economics is often considered the dismal science. To the average person it appears dry and boring but this should not be the case. While economics is not as dismal as it is often portrayed, it is not something the average person must learn. As Murray Rothbard once said, It is no crime to be ignorant [...]
Protecting the Foundations of A Free Society
Posted in From the Archives on 23 January 2012
Stats: 193 views and 1 Comment FEE was founded in 1946, yet the wheels began to spin even earlier. Today’s document is a letter from Leonard Read inviting Henry Hazlitt to a group discussion of what was to become FEE’s first publication, Fred Fairchild’s “Profits and the Ability to Pay” pamphlet. The letter is dated December 12, 1945, before the Foundation [...]
Posted in From the Archives on 23 January 2012
Stats: 193 views and 1 Comment FEE was founded in 1946, yet the wheels began to spin even earlier. Today’s document is a letter from Leonard Read inviting Henry Hazlitt to a group discussion of what was to become FEE’s first publication, Fred Fairchild’s “Profits and the Ability to Pay” pamphlet. The letter is dated December 12, 1945, before the Foundation [...]
Capital and Interest Review by Ludwig von Mises
Posted in Document on 29 December 2011
Stats: 273 views and No Comments Capital and Interest: Eugine von Böhm-Barwerk and the discriminating reader by Ludwig von Mises. A review of the new translation of Böhm-Barwerk’s three volume work from the Freeman in 1959.
Posted in Document on 29 December 2011
Stats: 273 views and No Comments Capital and Interest: Eugine von Böhm-Barwerk and the discriminating reader by Ludwig von Mises. A review of the new translation of Böhm-Barwerk’s three volume work from the Freeman in 1959.
Letter from Leonard Read to Henry Hazlitt December 12, 1945
Posted in Document on 28 December 2011
Stats: 119 views and 1 Comment Letter from Leonard Read dated December 12, 1945 inviting Henry Hazlitt to discuss a draft of Fred Fairchild’s book Profits and the Ability to Pay, which was to become FEE’s first publication.
Posted in Document on 28 December 2011
Stats: 119 views and 1 Comment Letter from Leonard Read dated December 12, 1945 inviting Henry Hazlitt to discuss a draft of Fred Fairchild’s book Profits and the Ability to Pay, which was to become FEE’s first publication.
Bureaucracy: Hopeless From the Start
Posted in From the Archives on 27 December 2011
Stats: 376 views and 1 Comment Incentives matter! This simple two-word sentence is the heart of Economics 101. Ask any economist, and she will tell you, “Yes, incentives do matter!” It also seems so simple and obvious when you stop and think about it. Sadly, as we start to think of more complex issues and problems, the importance of this little [...]
Posted in From the Archives on 27 December 2011
Stats: 376 views and 1 Comment Incentives matter! This simple two-word sentence is the heart of Economics 101. Ask any economist, and she will tell you, “Yes, incentives do matter!” It also seems so simple and obvious when you stop and think about it. Sadly, as we start to think of more complex issues and problems, the importance of this little [...]
Maybe Atlas Should Shrug
Posted in From the Archives on 19 December 2011
Stats: 665 views and 6 Comments In today’s document, Roy A. Childs Jr. opens his review of Leonard Peikoff’s book The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America with: “When the history of the twentieth century is written, one thing will stand out above all others: the growth of state domination over the lives of all mankind. The state has [...]
Posted in From the Archives on 19 December 2011
Stats: 665 views and 6 Comments In today’s document, Roy A. Childs Jr. opens his review of Leonard Peikoff’s book The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America with: “When the history of the twentieth century is written, one thing will stand out above all others: the growth of state domination over the lives of all mankind. The state has [...]
“Bureaucracy Defined” by Henry Hazlitt
Posted in Document on 16 December 2011
Stats: 347 views and 1 Comment Review of Ludwig von Mises’s Bureaucracy by Henry Hazlitt from the October 1, 1944 issue of the New York Times Book Review.
Posted in Document on 16 December 2011
Stats: 347 views and 1 Comment Review of Ludwig von Mises’s Bureaucracy by Henry Hazlitt from the October 1, 1944 issue of the New York Times Book Review.
The Point Is to Constrain
Posted in From the Archives on 12 December 2011
Stats: 298 views and No Comments What is a constitution? The average person on the street will certainly know our country has one. But does she really know what it is for? A constitution is a set of rules meant to constrain the government from going beyond its stated purpose. Many claim the State exists to protect citizens’ rights to life, [...]
Posted in From the Archives on 12 December 2011
Stats: 298 views and No Comments What is a constitution? The average person on the street will certainly know our country has one. But does she really know what it is for? A constitution is a set of rules meant to constrain the government from going beyond its stated purpose. Many claim the State exists to protect citizens’ rights to life, [...]
Review of Leonard Peikoff’s Ominous Parallels by Roy A. Childs, Jr.
Posted in Document on 8 December 2011
Stats: 181 views and 2 Comments Review of Leonard Peikoff’s Book Ominous Parallels by Roy A. Childs, Jr. from Laissez Faire Books, Inc Review August 1982.
Posted in Document on 8 December 2011
Stats: 181 views and 2 Comments Review of Leonard Peikoff’s Book Ominous Parallels by Roy A. Childs, Jr. from Laissez Faire Books, Inc Review August 1982.
Socialist Theater 101
Posted in From the Archives on 8 December 2011
Stats: 498 views and 4 Comments The consensus of economists today is that socialism generally doesn’t work. Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek are seen as the victors of the socialist calculation debate, which took place in the first half of the twentieth century. For the most part this consensus is new. Originally the market socialists were seen as victorious; their technical [...]
Posted in From the Archives on 8 December 2011
Stats: 498 views and 4 Comments The consensus of economists today is that socialism generally doesn’t work. Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek are seen as the victors of the socialist calculation debate, which took place in the first half of the twentieth century. For the most part this consensus is new. Originally the market socialists were seen as victorious; their technical [...]
