Big Government

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Who’s Listening?

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Education

05/15/1973 Leonard E. Read

Listening to the truth always has fortunate results. What does my listening reveal? That learning the truth or spreading wisdom—education—is now and forever an in-taking, never an out-bursting procedure. It may be possible for me to see your...

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A New History of Leviathan

Tags: Big Government, Corporate Welfare, War and Foreign Policy

08/17/1972 Murray N. Rothbard Ronald Radosh

The essays in this book reveal how and in what manner the corporate state developed in twentieth-century America. They show how a sophisticated group of large corporate reformers managed to replace a freely competitive economy and make a new...

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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Story of the Antitrust Laws

Tags: Big Government, The Entrepreneur, Legal System

04/26/1972 Harold Fleming

From the author: This book is not for lawyers, but for people. Or, if that distinction sounds unfair to my legal friends, let’s say it’s for laymen. The lawyers may read it if they want to. I put the citations in for them. I have tried to write...

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Man vs. The Welfare State

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06/15/1970 Henry Hazlitt

In this 1969 work, Henry Hazlitt explains why politicians who promise salvation through government are dangerous.

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Limits of State Action

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

09/01/1969 Wilhelm von Humboldt

The Limits of State Action, by “Germany’s greatest philosopher of freedom,” as F. A. Hayek called him, has an exuberance and attention to principle that make it a valuable introduction to liberal political thought. It is also crucial for an...

Education in America

Tags: Big Government, Education, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History

07/15/1969 George Charles Roche III

From the author: Increasing numbers of Americans express concern over the deterioration of modem society, accurately pinpointing various failings-social, political, and economic. Most of us are far better at discovering shortcomings than...

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The New Argument in Economics

Tags: Big Government

06/15/1963 Helmut Schoeck

From the author: As the history of social theories shows, the pleaders and engineers of “social change” usually need a dichotomy, a “polarization” of social reality. Once it was proletariat and bourgeoisie, imperialist and colonial people, rural...

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The Economics of the Middle-of-the-Road Policy

Tags: Featured, Interventionism, Political Theory, Big Government

04/25/1962 Ludwig von Mises

Private enterprise systems improve human cooperation and further peace and prosperity. Economic systems with which governments intervene are called liberal, or middle of the road economics. They declare they are not socialist. They say they wish to preserve market systems. But, is that possible? No. Nothing will be left of the free market. Capitalism and socialism cannot coexist. Step by step, interventionism erodes capitalism into some form of socialism. The clear distinction between production and government must be reestablished and left untouched.

Studies in Economic Nationalism

Tags: Big Government, Global Economy, World History

01/28/1960 Michael A. Heilperin

This work by Michael Heilperin, a giant in the area of monetary economics, might be one of the most rare - and unique - in the history of 20th century economic thought. It is one of the few books written during the mid-century period of hyper...

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Roosevelt’s Road to Russia

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/16/1959 George Crocker

From the author: Randolph Bourne, one of the critical commentators of the Woodrow Wilson period, once wrote that war is like a wild elephant: it carries the rider where it desires, not where he may desire. Perhaps the historian predilected to...

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