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Capital and Interest Review by Ludwig von Mises

Nicholas Snow — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:29:51 +0000

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

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:28:22 +0000

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 Defined” by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:04:52 +0000

Review of Ludwig von Mises’s Bureaucracy by Henry Hazlitt from the October 1, 1944 issue of the New York Times Book Review.

Review of Leonard Peikoff’s Ominous Parallels by Roy A. Childs, Jr.

Nicholas Snow — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:55:34 +0000

Review of Leonard Peikoff’s Book Ominous Parallels by Roy A. Childs, Jr. from Laissez Faire Books, Inc Review August 1982.

“Stalin as Classical Economist” by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:26:57 +0000

“Stalin as Classical Economist” by Henry Hazlitt. October 20, 1952 Newsweek Business Tides column about Stalin’s need to adapt more market policies in the Soviet Union.

Constitutional Practices Vs. Constitutional Revolutions

Nicholas Snow — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:49:53 +0000

A book review of Henry Hazlitt’s A New Constitution Now in The Nation December 5, 1942.

Publisher’s Response to Galbraith’s Review of Human Action

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:52:44 +0000

In the Letter to the Editor section of the New York Times Eugene Davidson, of Yale University Press, response to J.K. Galbraith’s attack of Yale University Press in his review of Mises’s Human Action. With Galbraith response back.

Hazlitt’s Newsweek, Best of the Free Man’s Library List

Nicholas Snow — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:06:02 +0000

Hazlitt’s Newsweek, Best of the Free Man’s Library List. Complies a short list of the best books on economics from Hazlitt’s book The Free Man’s Library.

In Defense of Laissez-Faire by J.K. Galbraith

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:02:22 +0000

In Defense of Laissez-Faire by J.K. Galbraith. A book review from October 30, 1949 of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action.

Albert Hunold’s “The Story of the Mont Pelerin Society”

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:17:31 +0000

Albert Hunold’s “The Story of the Mont Pelerin Society” is an address to the 9th meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society on September 8, 1958 in Princeton, New jersey. Hunold was the co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society along with economist F.A. Hayek.

“Crusade Against Luxuries” by Wilhelm Ropke

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:51:55 +0000

“Crusade Against Luxuries” by Wilhelm Ropke, an October 16, 1948 article from Time and Tide on the fallacies of prohibiting luxuries in order to provide more for the poor.

“Protectionism” by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:44:56 +0000

“Protectionism” by Henry Hazlitt. A March 13, 1961 Newsweek Business Tide Column about the fallacy of protectionism.

“John Kenneth Galbraith’s Marathon Television Series” By George Stigler

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:19:33 +0000

“John Kenneth Galbraith’s Marathon Television Series: A Certain Galbraith in an Uncertain Age” By George Stigler. A review of Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty Television series and book by Chicago economist George Stigler in National Review.

“The Economics of Freedom” by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:53:03 +0000

“The Economics of Freedom” by Henry Hazlitt. A review of Murray N. Rothbard’s principles of economics treatise Man, Economy, and State in National Review.

“Is it Worth the Price?” By Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:39:57 +0000

“Is it Worth the Price?” By Henry Hazlitt. October 8, 1962 Business Tide column article in Newsweek about whether the space race is worth the price we pay for it.

Letter From Herbert Hoover To Leonard E. Read March 4, 1950

Nicholas Snow — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:09:19 +0000

Letter from Herbert Hoover to Leonard E. Read March 4, 1950 praising Read for an article he had sent him.

“Is America Bankrupt?”

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:27:27 +0000

“Is America Bankrupt?” A a short magazine clip from 1957 about America’s debt problem.

Letter from J.M. Keynes to Henry Hazlitt September 17, 1931

Nicholas Snow — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:49:54 +0000

Letter from J.M. Keynes to Henry Hazlitt September 17, 1931, were Keynes turns down Hazlitt’s offer to participate in a series of articles entited, “If I were dictator.”

“The Fourth Dimension” by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:54:47 +0000

“The Fourth Dimension” by Henry Hazlitt. November 28, 1955 Business Tides column Article about government provision of goods and services.

Harvard Free Enterprise Society Newsletter Vol. II, No. 3

Nicholas Snow — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:51:36 +0000

Harvard Free Enterprise Society Newsletter Vol. II, No. 3 from November 17, 1948 entitled “The Worker’s Rights in the Worker’s Paradise” about the welfare differences between workers in the Soviet Union and capitalist countries.

Cliche of Socialism Number 8 “The Free Market Ignores the Poor”

Nicholas Snow — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:36:49 +0000

Cliche of Socialism Number 8 “The Free Market Ignores the Poor” by Leonard E. Read.

Letter from Henry Hazlitt to Henry Regnery January 30, 1975

Nicholas Snow — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:57:36 +0000

Letter from Henry Hazlitt to Henry Regnery January 30, 1975 where Hazlitt explains how he helped make Hayek’s the Road to Serfdom a hit in the US.

Bastiat for ’65 by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:11:45 +0000

Bastiat for ’65 by Henry Hazlitt. A short essay talking about the importance Frederic Bastiat’s writings were for 1965.

Mencken: A Retrospect by Henry Hazlitt

Nicholas Snow — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:25:16 +0000

Mencken: A Retrospect by Henry Hazlitt from Hazlitt’s Business Tides column February 20, 1956.

Toward Free Market Money by F.A. Hayek

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:16:32 +0000

Wall Street Journal Article from August 19th, 1977 by F.A. Hayek called Toward Free Market Money. The article is about ending the government monopoly of money and having it be supplied solely by the market.

Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises

Nicholas Snow — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:08:07 +0000

Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises. Published originally in the Journal of Social Philosophy & Jurisprudence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1942, while Mises was working for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The essay examines the differences between the social and natural sciences.

Letter From Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read August 16, 1948

Nicholas Snow — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:32:34 +0000

Letter From Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read August 16, 1948. Lane writes to Read about politicians who were influenced by Read’s book the Pattern for Revolt.

Richard Ebeling Review of Richard Cornuelle’s Healing America

Nicholas Snow — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:50:40 +0000

A review of Richard C. Cornuelle’s 1983 book Healing America by Richard Ebeling in the January 1984 edition of Laissez Faire Review.

Letter from Leonard Read to F. A. Hayek October 9, 1974

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:26:44 +0000

Letter from Leonard E. Read to F. A. Hayek October 9, 1974, where Read Congratulates Hayek on his Nobel Prize win.

Why Liberty by Pierre F. Goodrich

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:34:21 +0000

Why Liberty? by Pierre F. Goodrich. A pamphlet on the importance of liberty from businessmen and founder of Liberty Fund, Inc. Pierre F. Goodrich. Written for the 1958 Mont Pelerin Society Meeting in Princeton, NJ.

Golf and Curling

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:40:52 +0000

“Golf and Curling” by Leonard E. Read, an unpublished essay from 1955.

Review of Henry Hazlitt’s Inflation Crisis and How To Resolve It

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:06:06 +0000

Negative review of Henry Hazlitt’s Inflation Crisis and How To Resolve It by Marilyn Vencel in the Wilton Bulletin, September 6, 1978. As well as a responses from Hazlitt’s friends and Hazlitt himself.

Business Cycle

Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:30:17 +0000

Methodology

Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:30:47 +0000

Carl Menger and Early Austrians

Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:46:21 +0000

Professor Paul Cwik’s 2010 PowerPoint presentation “Carl Menger and Early Austrians.”

Capital and Interest

Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:16:43 +0000

Professor Cwik’s Capital and Interest 2010 PowerPoint presentation

Inflation By Milton Friedman

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:15:46 +0000

Milton Friedman’s essay entitled inflation, which was presented at the 9th annual Mont Pelerin Society Meeting at Princeton, New Jersey on September 5, 1958.

Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem

Nicholas Snow — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:50:51 +0000

A scanned original printing of Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem by Milton Friedman and George Stigler. FEE’s second ever publication. Published in September 1946.

Letter from the Canton Supply Company to Henry Hazlitt April 17, 1951

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:53:33 +0000

Letter from the Canton Supply Company to Henry Hazlitt April 17, 1951, praising Hazlitt for his book The Great Idea, which was later republished as Time Will Run Back.

Letter from Leonard E. Read to Joseph P. Kennedy October 25, 1947

Nicholas Snow — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:23:42 +0000

Letter from Leonard E. Read to Joseph P. Kennedy October 25, 1947. Leonard E. Read recommends an article by Henry Hazlitt that he believes Kennedy will find of interest.

Freeman Advertisement

Nicholas Snow — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:32:07 +0000

An old advertisement for the freeman. Yes… Freedom is everyone’s business.

Israel Kirzner Lecture on Advertising

Nicholas Snow — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:54:33 +0000

Israel Kirzner Lecture on Advertising from August 5, 1971 before summer seminar participants at FEE. George Roche gives an introduction.

Taxation is Robbery by Frank Chodorov

Nicholas Snow — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:41:05 +0000

Pamphlet about Taxation by Frank Chodorov.

Letter from John Wayne to Leonard Read on January 30, 1978

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:47:08 +0000

Letter from John Wayne to Leonard Read on January 30, 1978 discussing the Panama Canal Treatises.

Letter from Leon Trotsky to Henry Hazlitt on November 12, 1931

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:42:04 +0000

Letter from Bolshevik revolution leader Leon Trotsky to Henry Hazlitt on November 12, 1931.

A Bibliography on The Voluntary Society

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:54:36 +0000

F.A. “Baldy” Harper’s reference list: A Bibliography on the Voluntary Society: 100 Selected Titles in Economics, History, and Philosophy.

Photo of Israel Kirzner in the FEE Classroom

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:54:56 +0000

Photo of Israel Kirzner lecturing at FEE.

Tale of a Coat

Nicholas Snow — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:44:41 +0000

Cartoon about the difference between charity, theft, and the welfare state.

Letter From F.A. Harper to Henry Hazlitt April 3, 1946

Nicholas Snow — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:14:31 +0000

Letter From F.A. Harper to Henry Hazlitt April 3, 1946 where Harper suggests Hazlitt incorporates an idea he has about rent control into one of his newspaper stories.

Letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read April 25, 1950

Nicholas Snow — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:11:35 +0000

Letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read April 25, 1950, which provides a reference to Lane’s claim that Jefferson originally had “life, libery, and property” and later changed property to “the pursuit of happiness.”