In the summer of 1951, Mises, as he did every year, gave a series of lectures at the Foundation for Economic Education. Bettina Bien Greaves took word for word shorthand notes at those lectures and they are transcribed in this collection. The nine lectures included here cover the foundations of economics, the nature of economics, socialism, the achievements of capitalism, and three lectures devoted to monetary theory, inflation, and business cycles. Delivered just two years after the publication of Human Action, these lectures are Mises the teacher in his prime, making economics understandable for the interested citizen.
Also from the FEE Library
Victims of Social Leveling by Leonard E. Read by Leonard E. Read
Leonard E. Read discusses the flaws of “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” In practice this idea, of social leveling, would harm everyone in the long run.
The Foundation of Historic Irvington by Barbara Dodsworth
This pamphlet is a short history of the town of Irvington, New York and the FEE property.
The Romance of Reality by Leonard E. Read
This is one of Leonard E. Read’s earlier works discussing the conglomeration of state power and the need to embrace the free market.
Cliches of Socialism Number 69 by William H. Peterson
“Government spending assures prosperity.”
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 [...]
Categories: 
[...] Horwitz and Peter Boettke, – FEE – “The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to [...]
2 December 2009 at 12:26 pm