Introductory

Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

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07/20/1979 • Ludwig von Mises

This might be Mises’s best-selling book. It is a very clear explanation of the basics of economic policy: private property, free trade, exchange, prices, interest, money and inflation, socialism, fascism, investment, and much more. As Mises...

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Liberty: Legacy of Truth

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09/15/1978 • Leonard E. Read

Wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.” The millions of despots, now in the driver’s seat, are swayed not by faith but by that type of ignorance displayed by witch doctors or medicine men and their...

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Vision

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03/15/1978 • Leonard E. Read

Vision is the blessing of foresight, but it has no chance of realization without its companion blessing, insight. In the absence of these twin attainments—each within our reach—the people perish, that is, they vegetate rather than germinate...

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The Politicization of Society

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09/01/1977 • Kenneth S. Templeton, Jr.

The most famous essay in this great collection is Murray Rothbard’s “Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor”--perhaps the best explanation of the division of labor ever written. This attack also shows how statism represents a...

Awake For Freedom’s Sake

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09/01/1977 • Leonard E. Read

“Progression or advancement never graces anyone who succumbs to the notion that he has arrived—“has it made,” as we say. This mortal moment, if seen aright, is featured by growth in awareness, perception consciousness, day in and day out. To act...

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The Methodology of the Austrian School Economists

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01/01/1977 • Lawrence H. White

Today, the tradition of Austrian economics is enjoying a resurgence. Austrian economists are engaged in theoretical and applied research on a wide array of topics. What unifies this school of thought—what might be called its theme—is the...

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Comes The Dawn

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01/11/1976 • Leonard E. Read

Libertarians may seem few and far between today, but they are not nearly as isolated now as they were when Leonard Read (1898–1983) was working to spread the freedom philosophy. Yet, although Read saw socialism spreading all around, he knew it...

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The Love of Liberty

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10/15/1975 • Leonard E. Read

The love of liberty and the love of knowledge go hand-in-hand. As people can be free only when self-responsible and self-responsible only when free, so there can be no liberty without knowledge and no knowledge without liberty. These virtues are...

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When Money Dies

Tags: Introductory, Money and Banks, World History

06/01/1975 • Adam Fergusson

The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. This was a time of bizarre parallels: amazing riches coinciding with terrible poverty, mass quantities of money coinciding with a shortage of money, mania and...

Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader

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04/10/1975 • Bettina Bien Greaves

Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices, profits, property, competition, saving...

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