The Popularity of a Warning (Yet To Be Fully Heeded)
Posted in From the Archives on 27 June 2011
Stats: 486 views and No Comments The success of F. A. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom is in itself a fascinating story. Its origins date back to a memo written in the early 1930s by Hayek to Sir William Beveridge, then the director of the London School of Economics, disputing the fashionable claim of the ...
Posted in From the Archives on 27 June 2011
Stats: 486 views and No Comments The success of F. A. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom is in itself a fascinating story. Its origins date back to a memo written in the early 1930s by Hayek to Sir William Beveridge, then the director of the London School of Economics, disputing the fashionable claim of the ...
Letter from Henry Hazlitt to Henry Regnery January 30, 1975
Posted in Document on 22 June 2011
Stats: 160 views and No Comments 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.
Posted in Document on 22 June 2011
Stats: 160 views and No Comments 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.
Baldy Harper on Margarine and Public Choice
Posted in From the Archives on 22 September 2010
Stats: 634 views and 1 Comment Public Choice theory uses the tools of economics to study human action within the political sphere. Rather than assuming political agents act in the public interest, Public Choice theory treats them as self-interested individuals. This may seem obvious to many of us but it was an important step for the ...
Posted in From the Archives on 22 September 2010
Stats: 634 views and 1 Comment Public Choice theory uses the tools of economics to study human action within the political sphere. Rather than assuming political agents act in the public interest, Public Choice theory treats them as self-interested individuals. This may seem obvious to many of us but it was an important step for the ...
Lessons From The French Revolution?
Posted in From the Archives on 26 March 2010
Stats: 10,378 views and 3 Comments Those supporting freedom should learn a lesson from the French Revolution. In "The First Leftist" (1951), Dean Russell, a former FEE employee and expert on French liberalism, described what went wrong in the French Revolution. According to Russell, "the first leftist" were members of the National Constituent Assembly who wanted to ...
Posted in From the Archives on 26 March 2010
Stats: 10,378 views and 3 Comments Those supporting freedom should learn a lesson from the French Revolution. In "The First Leftist" (1951), Dean Russell, a former FEE employee and expert on French liberalism, described what went wrong in the French Revolution. According to Russell, "the first leftist" were members of the National Constituent Assembly who wanted to ...
From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 4 September 2009
Stats: 428 views and 12 Comments I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the "left," could not remain silent in the face ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 4 September 2009
Stats: 428 views and 12 Comments I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the "left," could not remain silent in the face ...
