Henry Grady Weaver

Articles

02/10/2012 Mises Daily Henry Grady Weaver

Most human beings cling to the ancient superstition that they are not self-controlling and not responsible for their own acts.

Freedom, Ownership, and Human Progress

04/18/2011 Mises Daily Henry Grady Weaver

For 6,000 years, men carried things on their backs. Then suddenly the forces of nature were harnessed to do the bidding of the humblest citizen.

Inventive Progress, Part 2

03/10/2010 Mises Daily Henry Grady Weaver

Free minds are inventive minds. That is why America has always been a land of inventors.

Publications

The Mainspring of Human Progress

03/15/1953 Henry Grady Weaver

What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible erudition

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