Larry J. Sechrest

Articles

Jean-Baptiste Say: Neglected Champion of Laissez-Faire

02/28/2025 Articles of Interest Larry J. Sechrest

Beyond some rudimentary facts, very little is available in English about the life of J.B. Say. He was born in Lyons, France, to middle-class Huguenot parents, and spent most of his early years in...

Privateers: An Example of Private-Sector Military Defense

07/10/2019 Mises Wire Larry J. Sechrest

[Excerpt from “ Public Goods and Private Solutions in Maritime History,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 7, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 3–27.] The Sea as a Frontier Life at sea, especially in the...

White’s Free-Banking Thesis: A Case of Mistaken Identity

07/20/2005 Review of Austrian Economics Larry J. Sechrest

From The Review of Austrian Economics Vol. 2 , 1988.

Publications

Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model

07/29/1993 Larry J. Sechrest

Free Banking: Theory, History and a Laissez-Faire Model is a magnificent work, now rescued from undeserved obscurity with this new edition. Published in 1993, it is a formalization and extension of literature in the free banking area, with important

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Chapter 7. Privateering and National Defense: Naval Warfare for Private Profit

06/06/2019 Larry J. Sechrest

From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

The Anticapitalists: Barbarians at the Gate

03/21/2008 Larry J. Sechrest

The Mises Memorial Lecture, from the 2008 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama.

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