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Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

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Percy L. Greaves, Jr. (1906–1984) was a free-market economist for US News (the forerunner of US News and World Report) and authored several books on economics, including Understanding the Dollar Crisis and Mises Made Easier. He was also a seminar speaker and discussion leader with the Foundation for Economic Education. Percy and his wife Bettina Bien Greaves were long-time associates and friends of Ludwig von Mises, and regular attendants at Mises's New York University seminar.

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

05/01/2010Books
Greaves blows the top off a 70-year Pearl Harbor cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence.
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Understanding the Dollar Crisis

Money and BanksGold Standard

06/15/1973Books
What is economics? What is the difference between price and value? What is money, and how did it originate? How and why did the gold standard come about?
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Why Employers Can't Exploit the Workers, Even if They Try

Blog09/02/2019

In a competitive economy, employers are unable to pocket the surplus produced by workers. If the employers try to do this, they lose market share and their best workers.

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Our Republic's First Economist

Money and BanksU.S. HistoryMoney and Banking

Blog08/18/2018

With printing of the Continental notes in 1775, Webster feared people would think you could finance the Revolutionary War by printing paper money. We should have listened!

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Is Further Intervention a Cure for Prior Intervention?

Interventionism

07/18/2018Mises Daily Articles
When anything goes wrong, from a train wreck to a change in stock market prices, the craven crowds always clamor for just one more law.
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31. Epilogue

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

12/30/2015Mises Media
Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.
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30. Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack (November 15, 1945–May 31, 1946) Reports

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

12/30/2015Mises Media
From Chapter 30: "Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack (November 15, 1945–May 31, 1946) Reports" Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.
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