Frank Chodorov

Articles

11/29/2018 Mises Wire Frank Chodorov

If the laws of economics are either unknown or not heeded, the inevitable penalty will be an economy of scarcity and poverty.

Free Will and the Market Place

11/15/2018 Mises Wire Frank Chodorov

The laws of nature are expressions of the will of God. You cannot monkey with them without suffering the consequences.

Let’s Teach Communism

01/15/2018 Mises Wire Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was doubtful that communist economics could stand up to any sort of serious analysis.

Publications

Fugitive Essays

11/01/1980 Frank Chodorov

If you were putting together a collection of writings by Frank Chodorov, what would you include? It’s an almost impossible task because he wrote so much and there is explosive insight in nearly every piece. The goal might be, as it is in this volume

One Is a Crowd

06/15/1952 Frank Chodorov

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov’s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning of

Income Tax: The Root of All Evil

07/20/1954 Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to violate

Media

Don’t Buy Government Bonds

01/13/2011 Frank Chodorov

When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of bankruptcy. Is dishonesty transmuted into its opposite when committed by a legal entity, writes Frank

I Watch Westerns

02/18/2011 Frank Chodorov

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for help from nobody, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.

Human Nature and the “Perfect” Society

02/25/2011 Frank Chodorov

Man the producer must have freedom, while man the predator puts limitations on freedom, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.

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