Richard J. Maybury

Articles

11/28/2024 Mises Wire Richard J. Maybury

Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very...

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

11/23/2016 Mises Wire Richard J. Maybury

[ Originally published November 20, 1999.] Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast...

A Tribute to the Statue of Ellis Island

03/01/1986 Free Market Richard J. Maybury

December 31, 1999 Today as we enter the 21st Century we should pay tribute to the Statue of Ellis Island. This grand symbol of our government’s power and majesty was not always so grand. Only twenty...

Publications

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

01/08/2016 Richard J. Maybury

It’s true that economic theory is a subject for adults — you don’t want to assign Human Action to an 11-year old — but kids can be taught plenty too. They don’t need details about epistemology or exchange rates. But by enticing them into the subject

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