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Cogitations

Cogitations is a collection of some of the more memorable
quotes from the libertarian philosopher and writer Albert Jay Nock.

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Clichés of Socialism Number 7 by Murray Rothbard
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Letter from Leon Trotsky to Henry Hazlitt on November 12, 1931 by Leon Trotsky
Letter from Bolshevik revolution leader Leon Trotsky to Henry Hazlitt on November 12, 1931.

The First Leftist by Dean Russell
“The First Leftist” is an article about the downfall of the French Liberals in the National Constituent Assembly right before the French Revolution and the devastating effects this had.

The House That Uncle Sam Built by Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke
By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for decades, namely, that the [...]

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[...] Horwitz and Peter Boettke, – FEE – “The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to [...]

//The Untold Story of the Great Recession of 2008
2 December 2009 at 12:26 pm

[...] Horwitz and Peter Boettke have an essay on the housing bubble – just published by FEE. The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes [...]

//Uncle Sam and housing at catallaxyfiles
2 December 2009 at 4:24 pm

[...] Foundation For Economic Education (FEE) presents The House That Uncle Sam Built, an excellent synopsis of the government’s role in the housing boom and bust. Authors are [...]

//Building houses on financial sand « Liberty vs. Leviathan
2 December 2009 at 10:23 pm

[...] “The House That Uncle Sam Built” by Steven Horowitz and Peter Boettke for a good rundown of what actually caused the housing [...]

//this is the samaBlog » Blog Archive » Appearance of Irrationality
3 December 2009 at 3:34 pm

[...] The entire essay is available as a pdf here. [...]

//Dispelling The “Capitalism Failed” Myth : Conservative Compendium
7 December 2009 at 11:24 am

[...] Given the enormous role that government interventions played in causing the current recession, from the expansionary policies of the Fed to GSEs like Fannie and Freddie, to misguided [...]

//Five Questions for a Keynesian « Free Market Mojo
30 December 2009 at 7:31 pm

[...] Given the enormous role that government interventions played in causing the current recession, from the expansionary policies of the Fed to GSEs like Fannie and Freddie, to misguided [...]

//Will Keynesians Please Answer? | Monty Pelerin's World
6 January 2010 at 2:00 pm

[...] Professors Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz, co-authors of the recent FEE monograph “The House That Uncle Sam Built,” about what led to the financial meltdown and the Great Recession of [...]

//Episode 17: What Caused the Financial Crisis? | Foundation for Economic Education
15 January 2010 at 9:48 am

[...] new paper out applying a Hayekian view to the latest boom-and-bust cycle. It’s titled “The House that Uncle Sam Built,” and it’s worth [...]

//Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Video « Inertia Wins!
25 January 2010 at 6:17 pm

[...] The House That Uncle Sam Built | Foundation for Economic Education (tags: FEE recession economics banking finance crisis housing credit GMU Boettke) [...]

//links for 2010-01-26 « Overton’s Arrow
26 January 2010 at 8:40 pm

[...] happened. The article can be found on the website of FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) at http://fee.org/doc/the-house-that-uncle-sam-built/ and is reproduced in PDF format here: HouseUncleSamBuiltBooklet [...]

//A Planned Economy is a Plan for Failure « Hazel Fluke’s Financial
16 March 2010 at 3:29 pm

[...] More is here in “The House That Uncle Sam Built.” [...]

//BizzyBlog
6 May 2010 at 10:34 am

[...] undermining economic well-being. (I’ve been a career-long critic of the Fed, especially about its role in causing the current recession.) What I am arguing is that the source of the problems they cause is not the evil intentions of [...]

//Conspiracy-Theory Socialism | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
20 May 2010 at 1:02 am

[...] idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Rather than address the systemic distortions created by prior government policies, and which caused the financial meltdown, policy makers are now “[putting] a lot of faith in [...]

//Faith in Government Regulators is Misplaced « The Market Center Blog
27 June 2010 at 8:08 pm

//Faith In Government Regulators Is Misplaced : Conservative Compendium
28 June 2010 at 5:38 pm

[...] and bust of the business cycle are products of misguided government monetary and fiscal policies. The recession we are now experiencing could have been avoided had the Fed not driven interest rates down too low after 9/11 and had other [...]

//Not All Job Destruction Is Creative | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
26 August 2010 at 12:02 am

[...] Horwitz and Boettke’s “The House that Uncle Sam Built” for an excellent explanation of just how government policy did this leading up to the recent [...]

//Gordon Gekko on Greed | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
28 September 2010 at 7:50 am

[...] seen systematic deregulation of banking and finance. As Peter Boettke and I document in our essay “The House that Uncle Sam Built,” the ratio of legislation that increased regulation to legislation that decreased it is about 4:1. [...]

//Have Pro-Deregulation Economists Been Bought? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
7 October 2010 at 12:02 am

[...] people they are said to help, but still they remain, and are constantly increased. We know that government meddling in the housing market contributed to the economic collapse, yet the very same policies continue [...]

//A Lesson in Unintended Consequences : Conservative Compendium
15 January 2011 at 8:07 pm

[...] It Just Ain't So! by Steven Horwitz Can The Feds Save The Housing Market? by Robert P. Murphy The House That Uncle Same Built by Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Neglected Factor in the Housing "Bubble" by [...]

//The Housing Boom & Bust « FEE.tv | Freedom in HD
16 August 2011 at 9:28 am