4.1. How Government Interference and the Impairment of the Profit Motive Drive Business Toward Bureaucratization
No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.
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A Time is Born
During an interlude of twenty-one years between two global wars Heaven swung low and then high again. When it was very low, seeming almost to touch the hill tops, the human race prepared to celebrate the death of poverty. In the whole world...
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The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue
When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken’s successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with...
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The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman
The Book of Journeyman is a collection of Nock’s essays originally written for The New Freeman. It is quintessential Nock. For example, on “Lawyer’s Law” (pp. 9-10) he quips: The Russians are the best off of almost any people in the world in one...
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Harangue
Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund...
Satan’s Bushel
This dazzling work in economic fiction is the third of Garet Garrett’s novel trilogy, written and first published in 1924. Like the others, Satan’s Bushel is a splendid book, not just from the point of view of economics but also as a piece of...
The Freeman Book
Yes, that’s right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of...
The Cinder Buggy
Garet Garrett’s fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan’s Bushel examines agricultural. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three and...
The Driver
Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People’s Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as...
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Sumner’s dominant interest in political economy, as revealed in his teaching and writing, issued in a doughty advocacy of “free trade and hard money,” and involved the relentless exposure of protectionism and of schemes of currency-debasement...
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