Free Markets

Essentials of Economics

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02/21/1956 • Faustino Ballvé

Faustino Ballvé was a remarkable thinker and economist, educated in Spain and England and teaching and practicing law in Mexico City. He was there when Ludwig von Mises came to speak on a lecture tour. The talks that Ballvé heard sparked a new...

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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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Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery

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05/28/1949 • F.A. Harper

F.A. Harper was a leader in the libertarian movement from the 1950s and onward. Here is his early manifesto (1949), in which he reveals a sophisticated understanding of free markets and freedom but had not yet, as he later did, come around...

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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.

1.1. The Operation of the Market Mechanism

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05/02/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs, but the captain is the consumer.

Do We Want Free Enterprise?

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03/05/1944 • Vervon Orval Watts

The very idea of “educating the masses” is inconsistent with the ideals of freedom and individualism to which we give lip service. Who are “the masses”? Can the term be more appropriately applied to others than to ourselves? We are all...

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Liberalismus

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05/21/1927 • Ludwig von Mises

The German edition of Mises’s classic Liberalism. The program of liberalism... if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result...

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Protection or Free Trade

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06/04/1886 • Henry George

Henry George endeavors to determine whether protection or free trade better accords with the interests of labor, and to bring to a common conclusion on this subject those who really desire to raise wages.

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Mises Review

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04/01/1995

Mises Review, now online, is a quarterly review of the literature in economics, politics, philosophy, and law. Edited by David Gordon.