Articles in the Notes from FEE Category
Restoring the Spirit of Classical Liberalism
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 277 views and No Comments Abridged from the keynote address delivered at the May 2005 Adam Smith Award Dinner. I am very glad to be here. Though I have never been here before, I have had a half-century relationship with FEE. I first met Leonard E. Read in 1957 at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 277 views and No Comments Abridged from the keynote address delivered at the May 2005 Adam Smith Award Dinner. I am very glad to be here. Though I have never been here before, I have had a half-century relationship with FEE. I first met Leonard E. Read in 1957 at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting ...
Socialized Health Care: The Communist Dream and the Soviet Reality
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 8,022 views and 28 Comments The utopian ideal of equality of circumstances has captured people’s imagination since ancient times. If only everybody could have the same of everything the world would be different. There would be no envy, no crime, no poverty, no greed, and no unhappiness. From Plato to Karl Marx, many thinkers looked ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 8,022 views and 28 Comments The utopian ideal of equality of circumstances has captured people’s imagination since ancient times. If only everybody could have the same of everything the world would be different. There would be no envy, no crime, no poverty, no greed, and no unhappiness. From Plato to Karl Marx, many thinkers looked ...
The Greatest Mistake in American History: Letting Government Educate Our Children
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 582 views and 2 Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in December 2004. This is a special evening for me. FEE’s founder, Leonard E. Read, had a major influence on my life. He was the one person who actually made me understand how to think and approach others ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 582 views and 2 Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in December 2004. This is a special evening for me. FEE’s founder, Leonard E. Read, had a major influence on my life. He was the one person who actually made me understand how to think and approach others ...
The Threats to Liberty in the 21st Century
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 139 views and 1 Comment On May 6, 2006, the Foundation for Economic Education had the honor of presenting the 2006 Adam Smith Award for Excellence in Free-Market Education to two great champions of the free society: Dr. Walter E. Williams and President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic. The following are the unabridged addresses ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 139 views and 1 Comment On May 6, 2006, the Foundation for Economic Education had the honor of presenting the 2006 Adam Smith Award for Excellence in Free-Market Education to two great champions of the free society: Dr. Walter E. Williams and President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic. The following are the unabridged addresses ...
The Tide in the Affairs of Men
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 24 views and No Comments Adapted from an article that appeared in the April 1989 issue of The Freeman. The aim of this brief essay is to present a hypothesis that a major change in social and economic policy is preceded by a shift in the climate of intellectual opinion. The intellectual tide is spread to ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 24 views and No Comments Adapted from an article that appeared in the April 1989 issue of The Freeman. The aim of this brief essay is to present a hypothesis that a major change in social and economic policy is preceded by a shift in the climate of intellectual opinion. The intellectual tide is spread to ...
Three Myths of the Great Depression
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 5,119 views and 4 Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in July 2004. The Great Depression of the 1930s was in many ways the defining economic event of the 20th century. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the atmosphere of crisis created by the Depression to implement a series ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 5,119 views and 4 Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in July 2004. The Great Depression of the 1930s was in many ways the defining economic event of the 20th century. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the atmosphere of crisis created by the Depression to implement a series ...
Trusting the Government: A Two-Way Street
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 110 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in July 2005. I am delighted and tremendously honored to speak at the Foundation for Economic Education. I love your magazine, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty! I have spent the last three days in meetings at the United ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 110 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in July 2005. I am delighted and tremendously honored to speak at the Foundation for Economic Education. I love your magazine, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty! I have spent the last three days in meetings at the United ...
What It Means to Be an American
Posted in Notes from FEE on 8 December 2008
Stats: 1,963 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York in November, 2003. In the early 1950s, Leonard E. Read, the founder and first president of the Foundation for Economic Education, began publishing a bimonthly newsletter with the title “Notes from FEE.” He wanted to ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 8 December 2008
Stats: 1,963 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York in November, 2003. In the early 1950s, Leonard E. Read, the founder and first president of the Foundation for Economic Education, began publishing a bimonthly newsletter with the title “Notes from FEE.” He wanted to ...
