The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute. It is probably not the complete collected works, but it is all that he collected in book form. These are books that shaped several generations of activists, donors, writers, and intellectuals. They are the books that kick-started the libertarian movement after World War II.
Thus does Thom Hartmann at the Huffington Post say that “The intellectual forefathers and mothers of the insane conservative economic policies that have brought us to where we are include Ludwig Von Mises, Freidrich Von Hayeck (sic.)...”
Never mind that Mises and Hayek were the 20th century’s premier opponents of loose money and central banking and subsidized credit.
The 1978 interviews with Friedrich Hayek conducted by Earlene Craver, Axel Leijonhufvud, Leo Rosten, Jack High, James Buchanan, Robert Bork, Thomas Hazlett, Armen Alchian, and Robert Chitester in 1978 are now available on the internet.
This transcript is a translation of the first part of Egill Helgason’s interview of Gunnar Tómasson, a former IMF economist, on Icelandic state television’s “Silfur Egils” on February 1, 2009. (The video is available on YouTube.)
In Enemies of What State?, mutualist Kevin Carson, in yet another strawman attack on “vulgar libertarians” (libertarians I know are not Thatcherites or Reaganites, for example) and “free market” advocates who are really statists or “economic fascists,” writes:
In writing about socialist medical care like they have in Canada, one of my points has been that socialist systems tend to be undercapitalized, as in such a system, capital becomes a liability rather than an asset. For example, the county where I work has about 80,000 residents and has as many MRI machines as does Montreal, which has several million people living in the area.
