Introductory

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Liberty and Property

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10/15/1958 Ludwig von Mises

In 1958, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn...

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Why Not Try Freedom

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06/15/1958 Leonard E. Read

Liberty is an outward creation of man which he has adopted for himself and whose use and enjoyment he reserves for mankind as a whole, for which he struggles and to which he dedicates consciously or unconsciously his highest efforts. But at the...

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The Counter-Revolution of Science

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06/01/1952 Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek wrote The Counter-Revolution of Science in 1952, several years before Mises wrote his final methodological treatise. It was unavailable for many years, and remains long sought after – rightly so. In fact, Mises adored this book as a...

Instead of Violence

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06/22/1951 Leonard E. Read

Written in 1951, this is one of Leonard Read’s earliest pamphlets on what he called “the philosophy of freedom.” As was often the case in Read’s essays on spreading the message of liberty, he notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own...

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Students of Liberty

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06/16/1950 Leonard E. Read

Most of us do not like to act in areas where we are confused. To do so might cause more harm than good. The question is: Is there some common fault which serves as the root of all these ills, a fault that can be defined and for which treatment...

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2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management.

1.4. Personnel Management Under an Unhampered Labor Market

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The price of labor is a market phenomenon determined by the consumers' demands for goods and services.

1.3. Management Under the Profit System

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The profit motive drives entrepreneurs to serve the consumers.

1.2. Economic Calculation

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The impracticability of all schemes of socialism and central planning is to be seen in the impossibility of any kind of economic calculation under these conditions.

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