Big Government

Liberty: Legacy of Truth

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

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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Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

Tags: Big Government, World History

02/14/1978 • Robert L. Scheuttinger • Eamonn F. Butler

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting...

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The New Despotism

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06/15/1976 • Robert A. Nisbet

Nothing seems to have mattered more to such minds as Montesquieu, Turgot, and Burke in Europe and to Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin in the United States than the expansion of freedom in the day-to-day existence of human beings, irrespective of...

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Twilight of Authority

Tags: Intermediate, Big Government

06/01/1975 • Robert A. Nisbet

This classic occupies an interesting place in libertarian history. The author is a sociologist, one beloved by conservatives. But read closely: his view of what constitutes authority (legitimate authority) flows entirely out of the private...

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

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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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