Protecting the Foundations of A Free Society
Posted in From the Archives on 23 January 2012
Stats: 183 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 ...
Posted in From the Archives on 23 January 2012
Stats: 183 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 ...
Letter from Leonard Read to Henry Hazlitt December 12, 1945
Posted in Document on 28 December 2011
Stats: 116 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: 116 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: 375 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, ...
Posted in From the Archives on 27 December 2011
Stats: 375 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, ...
“Bureaucracy Defined” by Henry Hazlitt
Posted in Document on 16 December 2011
Stats: 341 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: 341 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Stalin as Classical Economist” by Henry Hazlitt
Posted in Document on 30 November 2011
Stats: 349 views and 2 Comments "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.
Posted in Document on 30 November 2011
Stats: 349 views and 2 Comments "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.
The Best of the Free Man’s Library
Posted in From the Archives on 21 November 2011
Stats: 473 views and 1 Comment Henry Hazlitt was not an economist by trade. He was, however, a very learned man who absorbed more economic knowledge than many professional economists do. And Hazlitt didn’t gain this knowledge by simply hanging around the likes of such brilliant individuals such as Ludwig von Mises (which he did). He ...
Posted in From the Archives on 21 November 2011
Stats: 473 views and 1 Comment Henry Hazlitt was not an economist by trade. He was, however, a very learned man who absorbed more economic knowledge than many professional economists do. And Hazlitt didn’t gain this knowledge by simply hanging around the likes of such brilliant individuals such as Ludwig von Mises (which he did). He ...
Hazlitt’s Newsweek, Best of the Free Man’s Library List
Posted in Document on 8 November 2011
Stats: 377 views and No Comments 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.
Posted in Document on 8 November 2011
Stats: 377 views and No Comments 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 Smugglers: The “Judicious Reformers”
Posted in From the Archives on 19 September 2011
Stats: 474 views and 5 Comments Protectionism is one of the oldest fallacies economists have had to battle. The idea has its roots in mercantilist thinking. In its simplest form mercantilism states that wealth is money. Thus foreign trade is bad because imports cause wealth, that is, money, to leave the country. Further, buying foreign goods means that domestic ...
Posted in From the Archives on 19 September 2011
Stats: 474 views and 5 Comments Protectionism is one of the oldest fallacies economists have had to battle. The idea has its roots in mercantilist thinking. In its simplest form mercantilism states that wealth is money. Thus foreign trade is bad because imports cause wealth, that is, money, to leave the country. Further, buying foreign goods means that domestic ...
