Dead Start
Project Head Start is supposed to be the exception to the Great Society rule—a welfare program that actually works.
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Recent Publicaitons From the Ludwig Von Mises Institute
The Free Market Reader (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1988) is a 400-page collection of 76 articles, most of which first appeared in the Free Market newsletter. Since 1982, the Mises Institute has used this medium to promote economic understanding to the general public (although academics like myself enjoy it too). The purpose is to educate people about the need to rid society of the impoverishment and injustice caused by the government.
Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot
Paul Poirot is remembered by most people as the thirty-year editor of The Freeman, the monthly journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education since 1956. But Paul Poirot was much more than just an editor. Dr. Poirot was an...
The Misesian Revolution In Poland
Under the surface, Poland is seething with anti-government ferment. And the works of Ludwig von Mises and his students are part of the reason—testimony once again to the potency of truth.
A Call to Activism
Mrs. Mises delivered this speech on February 27, 1984, at the Mises Institute dinner in her honor in New York City.
How Do We Know
The master educator of liberty reflects on learning, and other forms of self-improvement. In the title essay, Leonard Read writes, “Everyone who pursues an improved understanding of how freedom works its wonders makes a contribution to a higher...
Seeds of Progress
The mass of citizens who haven’t the slightest idea of what makes an economy fruitful or unfruitful, perform trillions of little things that result in an abundance of goods and services beneficial to millions of others whom they have no...
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Education: Free and Compulsory
What is it about today’s school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of...
Who’s Listening?
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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Let Freedom Reign
Leonard E. Read discusses the importance of freedom as a foundation for finding the answers to the problems induced by central planning and “master minding”. He suggests: “Freedom has come by accident, the result of desperation rather than a...
