Articles in the Notes from FEE Category
What is Seen and What is Unseen: Government “Job Creation”
Posted in Articles, Featured, Notes from FEE, People on 11 February 2009
Stats: 390 views and 9 Comments Larissa Price is a former FEE staff member. Barack Obama says his roughly $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan could save or create between three and four million American jobs by 2010. Many of these proposed jobs are New Deal-esque, involving the building or repairing of government infrastructure, such as ...
Posted in Articles, Featured, Notes from FEE, People on 11 February 2009
Stats: 390 views and 9 Comments Larissa Price is a former FEE staff member. Barack Obama says his roughly $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan could save or create between three and four million American jobs by 2010. Many of these proposed jobs are New Deal-esque, involving the building or repairing of government infrastructure, such as ...
The Tide in the Affairs of Men
Posted in Articles, Notes from FEE on 24 December 2008
Stats: 136 views and No Comments Adapted from an article that appeared in the April 1989 issue of The Freeman. The aim of this brief essay is to present a hypothesis that a major change in social and economic policy is preceded by a shift in the climate of intellectual opinion. The intellectual tide is spread to ...
Posted in Articles, Notes from FEE on 24 December 2008
Stats: 136 views and No Comments Adapted from an article that appeared in the April 1989 issue of The Freeman. The aim of this brief essay is to present a hypothesis that a major change in social and economic policy is preceded by a shift in the climate of intellectual opinion. The intellectual tide is spread to ...
Two Classics by Bastiat
Posted in Articles, Notes from FEE on 23 December 2008
Stats: 219 views and No Comments “The Candlemakers&' Petition” was translated and slightly condensed by Dean Russell from Selected Works of Frederic Bastiat, Volume I (Paris: Guillamin, 1863), pp. 58–59 and originally published in the March 1958 issue of The Freeman. “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen” is excerpted from the first chapter of ...
Posted in Articles, Notes from FEE on 23 December 2008
Stats: 219 views and No Comments “The Candlemakers&' Petition” was translated and slightly condensed by Dean Russell from Selected Works of Frederic Bastiat, Volume I (Paris: Guillamin, 1863), pp. 58–59 and originally published in the March 1958 issue of The Freeman. “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen” is excerpted from the first chapter of ...
Dancing with the Devil
Posted in Articles, Notes from FEE on 23 December 2008
Stats: 96 views and 1 Comment The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in February 2005. The Second World War has left a permanent scar on mankind. The battle lines of war engulfed all of Europe, much of Asia, parts of Africa, and touched the shores of North America. As many ...
Posted in Articles, Notes from FEE on 23 December 2008
Stats: 96 views and 1 Comment The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in February 2005. The Second World War has left a permanent scar on mankind. The battle lines of war engulfed all of Europe, much of Asia, parts of Africa, and touched the shores of North America. As many ...
The Essence of Americanism
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 65 views and No Comments Abridged from a 1961 lecture at FEE. Someone once said: It isn’t that Christianity has been tried and found wanting; it has been tried and found difficult—and abandoned. Perhaps the same thing might be said about freedom. The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 65 views and No Comments Abridged from a 1961 lecture at FEE. Someone once said: It isn’t that Christianity has been tried and found wanting; it has been tried and found difficult—and abandoned. Perhaps the same thing might be said about freedom. The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away ...
Healing America: The Free Market Instead of Government Health Care
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 338 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in July 2006. Our society has been bedazzled by a host of seductive and erroneous ideas about American medical care: we can change human nature, and this time we can do it right; we can find the fountain of ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 338 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in July 2006. Our society has been bedazzled by a host of seductive and erroneous ideas about American medical care: we can change human nature, and this time we can do it right; we can find the fountain of ...
The Health of a Republic
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 56 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, in February 2004. The term republic had a significant meaning for all early Americans. The form of government secured by the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, and the Constitution was unique, ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 56 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, in February 2004. The term republic had a significant meaning for all early Americans. The form of government secured by the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, and the Constitution was unique, ...
Human Betterment Through Globalization
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 101 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in September 2005. It’s a great pleasure to join FEE for their “Saturday Night Live” and to be among both old friends and many new ones. Several years ago Candace and I taught one of the FEE student ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 101 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in September 2005. It’s a great pleasure to join FEE for their “Saturday Night Live” and to be among both old friends and many new ones. Several years ago Candace and I taught one of the FEE student ...
Is the “Spectre of Communism” Still Haunting the World?
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 140 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in March 2006. “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.” It may seem strange to quote from the famous opening line of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’ Communist Manifesto in this day and age. After all, the ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 140 views and No Comments The following is abridged from a speech delivered at “Evenings at FEE” in March 2006. “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.” It may seem strange to quote from the famous opening line of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’ Communist Manifesto in this day and age. After all, the ...
The Miracle and Morality of the Market
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 73 views and No Comments Have you ever stopped to think about how much of the world around us we take for granted? How often do any of us reflect on the law of gravity that keeps the moon revolving around the earth or on the chemical workings of our internal organs after we have ...
Posted in Notes from FEE on 19 December 2008
Stats: 73 views and No Comments Have you ever stopped to think about how much of the world around us we take for granted? How often do any of us reflect on the law of gravity that keeps the moon revolving around the earth or on the chemical workings of our internal organs after we have ...
